Medicine: Bamberger or Watkins?

In Chicago, a Mr. & Mrs. William Watkins were startled last fortnight to discover on their new baby's back a bit of adhesive tape labeled "Bamberger." They telephoned to the hospital where Mrs. Watkins had lain-in, then to one Charles Bamberger & wife. Had their newborn son been labeled Watkins? Mr. & Mrs. Bamberger looked. . . . Yes, he had!

Then the question was: which had been mixed, the babies or the labels? The babies, looked almost exactly alike. Doctors made blood tests—but all four parents had the same type of blood....

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