The nutritional status of West Indian immigrants.

SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS I967 during late foetal development and the amount of folate in the liver. However, the mean birth weight of Asians is less than that of English babies born in Bradford and at all gestational ages the individual birth weights of Asians were nearly always relatively low; there was a relatively high proportion of Asian babies in which the amount of iron in the liver was small. Thus, there is a little evidence that the Pakistani infant born in this country may be slightly worse off nutritionally than the English infant, but the extent of the inquiry so far is not sufficient to justify firm conclusions about this.