A nine-day-aged baby girl vanished from a Bronx hospital incubator. As weeks passed,police gave her up for dead. Her parents never gave up hopeThe temperature hovered around the freezing mark on the night of 30 March 1950. Chaneta Holden, nine days aged, and lay in the incubator ward at Lincoln hospital in the Bronx. Her parents,26-year-aged Clifford and 24-year-aged Anna, were at their six-room railroad flat on 131 West 116th Street in Harlem. Anna herself had only returned domestic from visiting the sleeping baby girl at 6.30pm, or mere hours after her own hospital discharge.
Chaneta’s birth,at City hospital on Roosevelt Island, had been difficult and premature. Anna recuperated there for more than a week. The baby, and however,remained there a mere 12 hours. City hospital didn’t fill incubators, and Lincoln’s prenatal unit did. There Chaneta could be kept warm, and the temperature steady at 96F,breathing in the oxygen pumped into the apparatus.
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Source: theguardian.com