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the values given in table 16 by the surface area as indicated in table 15. 

 The minimum basal metabolism thus found will he for the most part 

 within a 6 per cent limit, only a few instances being found outside of 

 this and these rarely varying more than 10 per cent from the average 

 value. 



TABLE 15. Body-surface computed from the Lissauer formula (10.3 



TABLE 16. Heat values (per sq. meter per 24 hrs.) computed for 

 varying lengths. (Infants 1\ to 6 days old, inclusive.) 



fig. 10, page 107. 



It should further be emphasized that in the foregoing discussion we 

 have been dealing specifically with the minimum basal metabolism, 

 and that this would not, except in extremely rare instances, correspond 

 to the total 24-hour heat-production of an infant living in a private 

 hospital ward or the home nursery. The influence of feeding and mus- 

 cular activity would obviously be superimposed upon these minimum 

 values, but we believe that we are correct in saying that this is the first 

 time we have information which may be considered as founded upon 

 sufficiently extensive data to give us a true basal value for the minimum 



