EDITORIAL

Acute respiratory infection: current status                                                                 595
Lata Kumar 

SPECIAL ARTICLES

Case definitions in the surveillance of vaccine preventable disease                            599
Jotna Sokhey, R.J. Kim-Farley and Indra Bhargava

ANNOTATION

Childhood cancer: the significant issues                                         605
A.    Venkatesh 

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Socio-economic and ecologic correlates of acute respiratory infections in Pre-school children      607
B.N.S. Walia, S.K. Gambhir, S.Singhi and S.R. Sroa                     

Acute respiratory infections in children: a hospital based report                               613
A.K. Patwari, S. Aneja, R.N. Mandal and D.N. Mullick

Lung function response to exercise testing                                                                            618
Asha Pherwani, Swati Bhave, K.K. Dattani and A.G. Desai

Peak expiratory flow rate of school-going tribal children (9-15 years) from  Orissa                    623
D. Behera, A.K. Behera and S.K. Malik

Continuous positive airway pressure with a face-mask in infants with hyaline Membrane disease     627
M.V. Murali, D. Ray, V.K. Paul, A.K. Deorari and Meharban Singh

Lobar Emphysema in infancy                                                             632
D.K. Gupta, M. Rohatgi, S. Chandna and M. Bajpai

Speeding up Universal Immunization Programme                                     636
M.M. Kekre, As. Mohammad, S. Pruthvish and D. Misquith

Evaluation of two immunization strategies for rural areas                                         642
A.K. Sood and V.P. Sood

Thumb sucking: an analysis of 150 cases                                                        647
P.K. Singhal, M.S. Bhatia, V.R. Nigam and Neena Bohra

REVIEW ARTICLE

Current perspectives in the management of respiratory distress syndrome              654
M. Lindroth

RECOMMENDATIONS

National workshop on child health and manpower: 2000 AD                                      667
S.K. Mittal

BRIEF REPORTS

Magnitude of Poliomyelitis in a rural area of Allahabad                                                          673
P.L. Joshi, M. Bhattacharya, A.K. Rastogi and B. Raj

Functional variations in leucocytes in childhood pulmonary tuberculosis                  675
S. Roy-Salam and Sudha Rani

Pulmonary agenesis                                                                            678
K. Chopra, G.R. Sethi, A. Kumar, R. Kapoor, M.M. Saha, M. Mital and S. Saluja

Solitary pulmonary hydatid cyst                                          683
M.C. Deodhar, M. Verma, T. Singh and S.M. Dhanwade

Congenital sideroblastic anemia in a female                                                               685
M.B. Agarwal

Pyometra in a three year old girl                                      688
J. Chandra, Iqbal Ali and Pervin Ahmad

Spontaneous neonatal gastric perforation causing hemo-pneumo-peritoneum                      690
A.K.  Basu, S. Ganguli and H. Ghosh

Iniencephaly                                                                      692
R. Anand, P.P. Sharma, M.L. Ratan, S. Kumari, A.K. Dutta, S.K. Mittal and A. Bali

Proximal myopathy as a presenting feature in hyperparathyroidism                          694
Majaz Moonis, Renu Gupta, K. Kumar, M. Bihari, K. Prasad, R.G. Goulatia and G.K. Ahuja

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Rattler chips aspiration                                                          701
M. Nachiappan, Amit Banerjee, K.S.V.K. Subba Rao and H.K. Bhaskar

Breast milk total nitrogen, non-protein nitrogen and lactoferrin content                   701
G.P. Mathur and Sarla Mathur

Antenatal sonographic diagnosis of pelvi-ureteric junction obstruction                    702
R. Kapoor and M.M. Saha

Osteosarcoma                                              703
V.K. Choudhary, K.K.P. Singh and S.N. Chatterjee

Isolated hypoglossal nerve palsy in pyogenic meningitis                                         705
Surjit Singh, R. Ravi Shankar, Pratibha D. Singhi and Lata Kumar

BOOK REVIEWS                                               707