“…are among those presented most commonly (Cameron, 1929;Dunham, 1933;Nelson, 1960;Groover, Sutherland, and Landing, 1961;Nyhan and Fousek, 1958;Buetow, Klein, and Lane, 1965). It has been pointed out by Moncrieff (1953) that many infants in the first days of life have a rectal temperature of 36-1°C, rather than the more usual adult norm of 37-2°C, and that a rise during this time may well be overlooked because of this. He also emphasized that overwhelming infection may be associated with a subnormal temperature.…”