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My assistant tried to contact one family. We wrote several
letters but did not get any reply. One fine day a lady
telephoned my office asking which baby and mother I wanted to
examine. According to her, in her house there were only grown up
people. Nobody had had a baby recently. The youngest child was
fourteen years old. She said her mother was really upset. We
went into the details, and traced the husband. He was at work
and we found out that this husband had two wives. The second
wife had delivered in our hospital and was recruited into the
Magpie Trial. The first wife had no idea of this second
marriage. The husband had given the address where he lived with
his first wife. The husband asked us not to mention this to the
first wife, otherwise there would be a big upheaval. So this
lady was followed up by phone only, and through her husband.
Interesting revelations took place during the follow up study of
the Magpie Trial!  By the way a man is