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Research Article

• Multiple sclerosis in southern Europe. I: Prevalence in Sicily in 1975. (1 June, 1979)

  G Dean, G Grimaldi, R Kelly, L Karhausen
• Multiple sclerosis in southern Europe. II: Prevalence in Malta in 1978. (1 June, 1979)

  L Vassallo, M Elian, G Dean
• Surprising decline of cardiovascular mortality in Switzerland: 1951-1976. (1 June, 1979)

  E Guberan
• Sickness absence after inguinal herniorrhaphy. (1 June, 1979)

  M Griffiths, M E Oblin, E D Acheson
• Alcohol and oesophageal cancer: an assessment of the evidence from routinely collected data. (1 June, 1979)

  C Chilvers, P Fraser, V Beral
• Tuberculosis among immigrants in the United Kingdom: the role of occupational health services. (1 June, 1979)

  M Khogali
• Self-reported morbidity data as an indicator of regional resource requirement. (1 June, 1979)

  R Dajda
• The impact of training traditional birth attendants on the utilisation of maternal health services. (1 June, 1979)

  H N Mathur, Damodar, P N Sharma, T P Jain
• The role of dispensaries in community health care in the Kainji Lake area of Nigeria. (1 June, 1979)

  E O Adekolu-John
• The cost of treatment of dermatological disorders in hospital versus health centre. (1 June, 1979)

  O Olafsson, E Haraldsson
• On the estimation of relative risk from vital statistical data. (1 June, 1979)

  V Beral, C Chilvers, P Fraser
• Poisson goodness of fit and the non-randomness of daily mortality. (1 June, 1979)

  P Philippe
• Summary of papers presented at the meeting of the Society for Social Medicine in Leeds, September 1978. (1 June, 1979)