Abstract
Some statistical observations were made on malnutrition in infants in Tohoku district with following results: I. Running parallel with the high mortality rate, malnutrition in infants aged up to two years was still frequent, i. e. 28.4% in infants aged 8-12 months and 24.1% in infants aged 12-18 months and particularly in following groups: infants of farmers and labourers, of later birth order and in delayed weanling.
II. Causes of malnutrition were low birth weight (9.1% of all cases), insufficient mother's milk (24.4%), inadequate artificial feeding (13.6%), inadequate weaning (34.7%), infections and diarrhea (9.5%) and endogenous disorders (9.5%).
