Abstract
The first scientific study of human birth weight appears to have been made by the German obstetri cian Roederer in 1753 (Cone, 1961), since which time an extensive literature has accumulated. The impor tant factors which have been shown to be correlated with birth weight are summarized in Table I. There have, however, been relatively few compara tive studies of the birth weights of infants from different ethnic groups and most of these have com pared samples of different socio-economic status. In their review of the literature, Hytten and Leitch (1964) concluded that Indian infants were lighter at birth when compared with Caucasians, Bantu, and other coloured groups in South Africa (Salber and
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