During a nutrition survey of school children at Pattan in Aurangabad District, my assistant, Dr. S. S. Ahmed, drew my attention to the occurrence, amongst the children, of chronic indurated sores of the skin and deeper tissues, and of shiny depigmented patches indicating scar-tissue of the healed sores. Later the same kind of sore was observed amongst school children at Jalna. Pattan is a town ...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether babies in an area of Britain with unusually high perinatal mortality have different patterns of fetal growth to those born elsewhere in the country. DESIGN Measurement of body size in newborn babies. SETTING Burnley (perinatal mortality in 1988 15.9/1000 total births) and Salisbury (perinatal mortality 10.8/1000 total births), England. SUBJECTS Subjects comp...

As the North Eastern town of Middlesbrough was trying on for size a new robe as ‘Digital City’ fitted to re-generate the impoverished industrial underwear, while the skinny ribs of petrochemical and steel still poked out the sky a proposal was made: Some personal and humanist space in the digital fabric of a virtual architectural model. We planned to appropriate a town-planning model and experi...

This paper addresses questions of ethnography in geographic fieldwork through research conducted on globalisation and work in Tiruppur, an industrial boomtown in South India. During the last two decades of the twentieth century, Tiruppur town in western Tamilnad State became India’s centrepiece in the export of garments made of knitted cloth. This industrial boom has been organised through netw...

! e article addresses the ways in which public spaces have been recon" gured since the end of socialism in Jagodina, a medium-sized industrial town in central Serbia. Unlike the majority of provincial towns, Jagodina experienced extensive building over the last decade. It is viewed as a success-story, and as a rare Serbian provincial town which has managed to develop economically in spite of th...

With the continuous progress of society, in order to promote economic transformation and development enhance endogenous power economy, it is necessary find new growth points. this opportunity, characteristic towns emerge as The Times require. Characteristic have characteristics industrial agglomeration upgrading. their unique advantages, they keep pace with Times, explore innovate, further sust...

As Asia becomes increasingly urbanized the effect of new industrial development on child mortality becomes of increasing interest. In India, considerable investment has been made in the social infrastructure of industrial new towns. This survey of Durgapur steel town in West Bengal shows that although the average level of child mortality in the working class population is favourable in comparis...

HOW TO CITE: Nickless A, Scholes RJ, Filby E. Spatial and temporal disaggregation of anthropogenic CO2 emissions from the City of Cape Town. S Afr J Sci. 2015;111(11/12), Art. #2014-0387, 8 pages. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/ sajs.2015/20140387 This paper describes the methodology used to spatially and temporally disaggregate carbon dioxide emission estimates for the City of Cape Town, to be use...