EDITORIAL

Systemic hypertension and preventive pediatrics                                         735
R. Tandon

SPECIAL ARTICLE

Protective value of BCG vaccine                                                      739
P.M. Udani        

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Effect of protein energy malnutrition and Vitamin A deficiency on the bones of hand and wrist       753
R. Vijayaraghavan, V. Pandiarajan, A. Subramanian and J. Viswanathan

Study of Rotavirus diarrhea in a North Indian community                                                      761
J.C. Samantaray, L.N. Mohapatra, M.K. Bhan, N.K. Arora, M. Deb, O.P. Ghai, G. Stintzing, R. Mollby and T. Holme

Screening of newborn for inborns errors or metabolism                                767
M.A. Phadke, S. Metelu, S.L. Kate, V.S. Joshi, D.B. Shirole, A.S. Joshi and G.D. Mokashi

Henoch-Schonlein syndrome in children                                             771
Meharban Singh, M.I. Amin, Azizullah Saidali and L.S. Arya

Effect of addition of nicotinic acid to the diet on the rate of weight gain of marasmic children      775
Lily Philip, N.S. Suguna Bai, S. Sathy and C.R. Soman

II. Prevalence of hypertension in apparently healthy school children                      779
Rakesh Agarwal, S.L. Mandowara, B. Bhandari and O.P. Garg

Tuberculosis in BCG vaccinated children                                           785
A.    Parthasarathy, R. Narmada and K.A. Krishnamoorthy

BCG in childhood tuberculosis                                              793
Tirthankar Datta

BRIEF REPORTS

The ‘Dumb-bell’ vesicouretheral calculus in childhood                                          799
Lalit K. sharma and Gian Chand

Leiomyoblastoma                                                        801
V.K. Srivastava, K. Sagreiya, B.B. Chaddha and Siddarth Ramji

Congenital (erythroid) hypoplastic anemia (Diamond Blackfan syndrome)
D.C. Sharda, S.A. Seif Eldin and S. Qattawi

Progressive bulbar paralysis of childhood (Pazio-Londe disease)                             805
M.V. Reddy and J.M.K. Murthy

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

A Rare case of scarabaeusis                                                   807
A.S. Padmanabhan, S. Ramesh and M. Gunasekaran

Health sub-centres and child health                                              807
S.P. Mukhopadhyay

Prepenile scrotum                                                       808
P.C. Mishra

Infant mortality rate                                               808
K. Prabhakar

Infant mortality rate                                                  809
Umesh Kapil

Infant mortality rate                                                                809
S.K. Bhargava and S.K. Mittal

BOOK REVIEWS                                                                     811