EDITORIAL

Xerophthalmia programme of the Royal Commonwealth Society for the blind                                   83
K. Indirabai

SPECIAL ARTICLE

Aids surveillance and the pediatrician                                                                                     85
Lalit Kant and D. Mukherji

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Environmental factors in childhood diarrhea in rural areas                                                    89
D.K. Agarwal, S.K. Kasana, A.M. Tripathi and K.N. Agarwal

Neonatal Hirschsprung’s disease                                                                                            97
L.K. Sharma

Cord blood cholesterol in term and preterm new borns                                                         103
P.P. Mathur, Ramesh Prasad, S.K. Jain, D.N. Pandey and S.P. Singh

Non-surgical treatment of valvar pulmonic stenosis: A new method                                      107
Savitri Shrivastava and Seema Mukhopadhyay

Intussusception in infancy and childhood                                                                              113
K. Yadav, R.V. Patel, S.K. Mitra and I.C. Pathak

Maternal involvement in the care of high risk infants in a sick newborn nursery – A prospective study 121
V.M. Mohan and S. Karan

Cell mediated immunity in tuberculous meningitis                                                                 127
R.S. Paranjpe, G.s. Acharyulu, P.V. Krishnamurthy, P. Ramachandran, A. Ravoof, P.R. Narayanan, S.P. Tripathy and R. Prabhakar

Epidemiological survey for prevalence of xerophthalmia                                                        135
K. Indirabai. J.V. Bhatt and K. Vaidyanathan

BRIEF REPORTS

Osteosarcoma in an infant                                   141
G. Kolandaivelu, P. Soundararajan, S. Radhakrishnan and K. Manohar

Computerised tomography in cerebral cysticercosis                                                              143
S.C. Tandon, V.D. Tiwari, A. Srivastava and S.K. Gupta

Freeman Sheldon Syndrome                                                                                                    146
N.A. Goyel, Z.M. Patel, P.B. Wagle and V.R. Mulye

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Physiotherapy and postural drainage in persistent lower respiratory infection                                 149
A Chetty and Kamal Kishore

Literature pollution                                                                                                                 150
Santosh K. Chaudhary

Health education through fun and fair                                                                                                151
R.U. Singhania, R.S. Chana, J.N. Sharma and A. Bansal

Awareness about breast feeding oral rehydration and nutrition                                             152
E.G. Suresh

Paralytic poliomyelitis in immunized and unimmunized children                                           152
T. Jacob John