| Description | File of data, reports, papers, letters and newspaper cuttings concerning nutrition in Sarawak, Malaysia (joined Malaysia in 1963). Records include: a map showing the location of research centres in Sarawak, nd; notes concerning food consumption by the Sarawak Chinese community, 1950; labour reports for 1951 and 1952; education annual report for 1952 and 1953; papers by AJU Anderson, Clinical Specialist (nutrition), Sarawak Medical Service, concerning the use of plankton for increasing food supplies, the use of dams for food production, increasing crop yields with leaf mould, nutrition of Iban children of the Sut and Mujong rivers and malnutrition amongst Sarawak children from four communities, 1977-1978; blank forms and survey methodology for a dietary survey in Sarawak by Ruth Selinus, nutrition advisor, with a letter from Ruth to Joyce Doughty concerning the survey, 1 July 1977; statistics of food production and consumption in Sarawak 1964-1966; a press cutting from the 'Manchester Guardian' concerning agricultural enterprise in Sarawak, 5 May 1955 and a blank ante-natal clinic card for the Medical Department, Sarawak, nd. |