PEDIATRICS Vol. 31 No. 6 June 1963, pp. 1057-1058
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Academy Recommendations and Public Health Regulations

F. H. HARVIE M.D.1

1 Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 4, Pa.

A recent communication (Pediatrics, 31:156, 1963) opens with a somewhat extended interpretation of comments from a previous letter of mine. If space permits, I should like to make some additional comments based principally on a few words from this same earlier letter: "Circumstances differ from one hospital to another."

The whole idea of wide spacing implies that a newborn infant presents considerable infectious risk to those in neighboring cribs. The degree of this risk will depend on the management of the maternity service as a whole and should be very small in any well-conducted unit.