Haemoglobin Equivalent of the B.S.I. Haldane Standard

Blood haemoglobin: the relationship between oxygen capacity and iron content of blood in men and women

“…Assuming an equivalent of 14-75 g. Hb/100 ml. for the British Standards Institution Haldane standard (Macfarlane & O'Brien, 1944;King, Gilchrist & Matheson, 1944) The specific oxygen capacity found was 393 ml. 02/g.…”

European Conference of the Nutrition Society

“…of the approved Haldane method, as read by most observers, is equivalent to 14.8 g. (King, Gilchrist and Matheson, 1944) or 14.7 g. (MacFarlane and O'Brien, 1944) of haemoglobin per 100 ml. Mackay, Dobbs and Bingham (1945) found that addition of iron, in physiological amounts, had no effect on the concentration of haemoglobin in the blood of children, although iron, in doses much above the amounts that occur in food, raised the concentration (see Davidson and Donaldson, 1944).…”

Haemoglobin Levels in Pregnancy

“…standard being equivalent to 14.7 or 14.8 g./Ioo ml. (King, Gilchrist & Matheson, 1944;Macfarlane & O'Brien, 1944). As 'normal' standards for women between the ages of 18 and 43 for comparison with our findings the following values were used, though it is generally agreed that the figures on which these ' normals' are based are not necessarily satisfactory normal means, since the haemoglobin level of certain groups of apparently healthy women can be raised by iron therapy (Committee on Haemoglobin Surveys, 1945) :…”