The diet at present used fot the African workers in the gold mines on the Rand is described in the preceding article by Dr. Orenstein, of the Central Mining Group. Dr. Orenstein is in charge of all health and welfare control for the Central Mines, and his recommendations are generally followed also by all the other mining groups on the Rand. A few comments on the diet may perhaps enable readers to visualize, in a more personal way, one of the largest undertakings in feeding great numbers of human beings from common kitchens that exists anywhere in the world.