A study of the nutritional state of urban bantu women( Witwatersrand) relative to their dietetic customs

Abstract

The study was undertaken during: the tenure of a joint appointment in the Departments of physiology and Medicine at the University of the Wltwatersrand. It was carried out throughout 1944 and the first half of 1945 when the incidence of malnutrition was high among African Native peoples, but as yet there was no detailed knowledge of their diets. i