FOOD AND NUTRITION

admission to the hospital (December 11) a blood count gave the following information. The hsemoglobln value was 49% (6'9 grammes per centum); the red blood cells numbered 4,360,000 per cubic millimetre and the white blood cells 6,050 per cubic millimetre; platelets numbered 519,000 per cubic millimetre. The erythrocyte sedimentation rate was two and a half millimetres after two and a half hours (normal, seven to ten millimetres in one hour). The bleeding time was still prolonged and no coagulation had occurred after sixteen hours. No further spontaneous oozing occurred. At eleven and a half weeks (February 6. 1946) the baby weighed seven pounds eleven ounces. A blood count now gave the following information. The red blood cells numbered 4,370,000 per cubic millimetre and the hremoglobin value was 52% (7'3 grammes per centum). The bleeding time was two and a half minutes. On April 15 a further blood count gave the following information. The red blood cells numbered 4,000,000 per cubic millimetre and the hremoglobin value was 50% (7'0 grammes per centum). No coagulation had occurred in seven days. The infant was discharged on May 8 to the care of a foundlings' home. He was now twenty-two weeks old and his weight was eight pounds fifteen ounces.