“…It is now well recognized that the megaloblastic anaemias of pregnancy may present a completely atypical blood picture (Stevenson, 1938;Abramson, 1938;Segerdahl, 1941;Davidson, Davis, and Innes, 1942b;Callender, 1944;Wolff and Limarzi, 1946), and to-day haematologists tend more and more to diagnose this condition from the bone marrow picture. Thus within the last 10 years studies of larger numbers of cases have appeared, and a condition which at one time was considered rare (Beckman (1921) reported six in 60,000 normal deliveries) has been given greater prominence.…”