This is a valuable report which should help to set standards and remove a lot of uncertainty. The clinical material was composed of over seven hundred babies, over two-thirds full term and under one-third premature, almost all born at the Mothers' Hospital in North-East London. The mean weights of the full-term infants are similar to those of published standards for 'normal' infants, but the smoothed curves now presented are a valuable addition to the somewhat scanty British data on this subject. The curves for premature babies confirm the view that if weights are grouped by age from conception, then after 40 weeks the curve is similar to that for full-term infants. As regards feeding it is
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Levin et al. (1960) studied this question.