The effect of national bread, of iron medicated bread, and of iron cooking utensils on the haemoglobin level of children in war-time day nurseries.

The presence in war-time day nurseries of groups of young children provided an opportunity for investigating anaemia in children under five years of age. There are, however, considerable drawbacks to such investigations in day nurseries. Chief among these are the high rate of cross-infections, the unstable population, and the investigator's ignorance, from lack of contact with the mothers, of the children's life outside the nursery.