The State of Nutrition and Physical Development of School Children in Hyderabad State *Paper condensed by the editor.

The nutrition section of the Public Health Department of H. E. H. the Nizam's Dominions undertook to do nutrition surveys and to ascertain the dietary habits, existence of deficiency diseases and physical development of the people. In this paper an attempt is made to find out standards of nutritional status and to ascertain the incidence of malnutrition and deficiency diseases amongst children. The field of study covers some 100 surveys involving over 17,000 school children belonging to about 1,500 families of Muslims, Telangees, Marathas and Kanarees at different economic levels. The area surveyed is divided roughly into two large parts according to the nature of staple cereals consumed by the families?rice and jawar. It can be seen from table I that the diet of jawar eaters is better in quality than that of rice eaters, but the difference in quantity is negligible.