Dominick Boccassini looking at his baby daughter, Frances Mary Boccassini, lying under a tiny oxygen tent constructed of X-ray negatives in the emergency following the operation. The baby girl delivered by Caesarean operation a few seconds after the married mother had died of tubercular meningitis in Philadelphia general hospital, USA. The father refused to give permission for the operation, an order was obtained from the court. 15 August 1937.