Summary: markedly reduced, often to below 2,000 per c.m., or 1 to 1,000 red, showing that the whole blood-forming process is weakened, and there is a great deficiency of the power of resistance to any intercurrent disease. This condition continues until the last stages of the disease, when some compensatory leucocytosis usually occurs, even though there may be no fever at the time, owing to some secondary infection of a pyemic or septic nature, as was the case in one of the deaths reported in the Nowgong Dispensary, just as in advanced cases of Hodgkin's disease. The proportion of leucocytes to red corpuscles is, however, not so crucial as the actual number of white corpuscles, as a slightly increased proportion is often found in otherwise healthy people, who do not present any blood changes.(word count: 232)