DEFICIENCY DISEASES
Anaemia Most Common (N.Z. Press Association) DUNEDIN, April 4. Anaemia was the most common deficiency disease in New Zealand babies, the director of medical services for the Plunket Society, Dr. N. C. Begg, of Dunedin, said today. The treatment was to give the babies enough iron to build up the haemoglobin content in the blood. Most family doctors gave iron routinely to premature babies, twins and triplets. These were the most vulnerable to anaemia because babies laid down a store of iron in their bodies in the last six weeks of pregnancy.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31028, 6 April 1966, Page 8
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