In 1976, the Ministry of Health introduced a comprehensive health-care program in Cornwall County, Jamaica. The primary health-care services were restructured with the general aim of providing better health services, mainly through decentralization and training. An evaluation conducted in 1980 (1, 2) showed that the program had a positive impact on the maternal and child health services in Cornwall County. During this period, the county health administration emphasized nutrition education that promoted bteastfeeding and feeding young children. The health administration in conjunction with the Ministry of Health Nutrition and Dietetics Division provided seminars for primary health-care staff. The staff disseminated nutrition information to the mothers through instructions in the clinics and in the community; through leaflets, posters, calendars, coloring books; and via mass media. However, there was no formal preand postevaluation of the county nutrition education program. Consequently we were unable to determine whether the program had any impact on breastfeeding or weaning patterns. Most of the studies on infant feeding have been done in Kingston (3, 4), Portland (5 and Note 1), and islandwide (6). Therefore, to obtain information to facilitate program planning, and to gather baseline data that could be used for future evaluation of our nutrition education program, we conducted a survey to determine the feeding practices of infants and beliefs of mothers in Western Jamaica. We conducted the study from March through August 1984 in three Cornwall County parishes (St. James, Westmoreland, and Trelawny). A three-stage cluster sampling procedure was used. In the first stage, the parishes were categorized as either urban or rural. In the second stage, a total of 41 enumeration districts were randomly selected in both urban and rural areas in the three parishes. Finally, 614 households were selected from 41 clusters. The Cornwall County nutrition staff interviewed 614 mothers in their homes. In cases where there was more than one child younger than 3 years old in a household, the inter-