THE NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF JAPANESE PRIS-

study of 29 Japanese prisoners of war captured near Pegu, Burma, and held in a forward divisional prisoner of war cage. It was thought that such a study would be useful as it might indicate what types of nutritional disturbance one could expect to find in Allied soldiers held captive by the Japanese in South East Asia, and their rehabilitation could be planned accordingly. METHODS Each Japanese prisoner of war was given a medical examination and stigmata of early nutritional failure, if present, were noted. Blood and urine samples were collected from each prisoner of war and analyzed in a mobile biochemical laboratory. Blood hemoglobin, total pro-tein and fasting serum vitamin C and serum chloride were measured, and urinary chloride, vitamin C, thiamine, riboflavin, and methylnicotinamide were estimated. The methods employed and the mobile equipment used in these studies have been described in detail by Johnson et al.1 The criteri