Intramuscular Iron Therapy in Anaemia of Pregnancy

Since publishing a preliminary report on the treatment of the iron-deficiency anaemias of pregnancy with intra- muscular injection of iron (" imferon ") (Scott and Govan, 1954), we have continued to use this drug and can now review the results obtained in a series of 300 patients. In practice almost double that number have been treated in this hospital with imferon. Ultimately, however, many of these cases were discarded in the final analysis for various reasons, such as an inadequate period of observation, failure on the part of patients to co-operate, and the intervention of obstetrical complications.