Notions of health and sickness held by Egyptian Fellahin are mixed with magical and religious beliefs. A description of their etiological concepts of illness as well as of measures taken to counteract evil spirits is given by SANUA. In particular, the 'Jinn' and the 'Zar' ceremonies, fertility rites, and practices employed by village magicians, barbers, and 'sheikhs' are presented (cf. B. Lewin, Transcultural Psychiatric Rerearch, No. 12, April 1962, p. 45). Owing to the very high birth rate serious medico-social problems frequently arise in Tunisia in relation to pregnancy, childbirth, feeding, education and care of children, and the general behavior habits of the mother at home. AMMAR discusses socio-cultural factors accounting for the high birth rate in Tunisia and presents psychopathological features observed on examination of a sample of sixty-seven psychotic women. Culture-determined transference phenomena have been observed by MORGENTHALER and PARIN during psychoanalysis of members of the Dogon people in Mali. RANKIN and PHILIP report an epidemic of laughing, crying, and restlessness in the Bukoba district of northern Tan ganyika. SCOTCH and GEIGER applied the Cornell Medical Index (CMI) to a Zulu population. They discuss difficulties arising from a transfer of a question naire designed for one culture to another. They arrive at the conclusion that CMI scores yield clues to the culture and social situation. In the hands of an anthropologist-physician team, the CMI may serve not only to give a crude health profile of a population, but also point to puzzles, points of stress, or areas of apparently high risk. A thorough socio-psychiatric study of the entire population of Tristan da Cunha which was evacuated to England after a volcanic eruption on the island, was carried out by RAWNSLEY and LOUDON, a psychiatrist and an anthropologist. The authors report their findings, relating them to previous psychiatric observations made on the island.