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^{Page 94 note 1} Pierre Cantrelle, ‘Mortalité au Sénégal’, paper presented at the International Meeting on African Studies, Montreal, 1969; also Latham, M. C., ‘Diet and Infection in Relation to Malnutrition in the United States’, in New York Journal of Medicine, LXX, 4, 1970, pp. 558–61.Google Scholar

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