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Indian Medical Research Memoirs Supplementary Series to the Indian Journal of Medical Research December 1941

1941

The inter-relationship of certain well-recognized forms of anemia and the pregnant state has been worked out in England and in the United States of America but knowledge of the normal physiological changes in the hmmopoietic system in pregnancy is by no means complete and therefore our understanding of the influence of pregnancy on the many forms of anemia met with in the tropics is still more [...] Cases of anaemia were collected from the ante-natal clinics of the Red Cross Centres the ante-natal and in-patient department of the Dufferin Hospital the maternity homes of the Calcutta Corporation and the Ramkrishna Mission Sishumangal Pratisthan. [...] The examinations for Wassermann reaction were carried out by the Imperial Serologist ; all the other examinations were done by the workers in the inquiry and the technique followed was the same as that used in the hmmatological department of the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine where the workers on this inquiry learnt the technique and where results were periodically checked. [...] The case of the leucocyte counts is and the three main age groups show a progressivb downward tendency in the leucocyte counts ; the difference between the youngest and oldest age groups is ' significant ' and the difference between the middle and the oldest groups is just short of the significance' level (Tables I-g and II-g) TABLE II-g. [...] It was found that the mean of the 11 Mohammedan readings for haemoglobin and MCV were 10.91 g. and 82.43 ; the haemoglobin is thus about the same as that of the whole series but the MCV of the Mohammedans is lower than that of the whole group ; the difference however between this figure 82.43 and the mean of the rest of the cases 87.75 is not significant '. There were amongst these women 20 p
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Pages
142
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120195
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-i L. Napier, M.I. Edwards view
Frontmatter
i-iv L. Napier, M.I. Edwards view
Chapter I Introduction
1-5 L. Napier, M.I. Edwards view
Chapter II Haematological Data from 128 ‘Normal’ Non-Pregnant Indian Women Living in Calcutta
6-22 L. Napier, M.I. Edwards view
Chapter III Haematological Data from 64 ‘Normal’ Pregnant Indian Women Living in Calcutta
23-25 L. Napier, M.I. Edwards view
Chapter IV Study of the Blood Picture in 465 Pregnant Indian Women Selectd Clinically as Anaemic
26-44 L. Napier, M.I. Edwards view
Chapter V Correlation of the Blood Picture with the Epidemiological Clinical and Other Pathological Data
45-87 L. Napier, M.I. Edwards view
Chapter VI Summary of Observations
88-90 L. Napier, M.I. Edwards view
Chapter VII Conclusions
91-94 L. Napier, M.I. Edwards view
Chapter VIII Recommendations Regarding Prophylaxis and Treatment
95-135 L. Napier, M.I. Edwards view
Backmatter
i-ii L. Napier, M.I. Edwards view

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