Miscellaneous

Correction for Tang et al., BMJ 316 (7139) 1213-1220.
Correction for Hossain et al., BMJ 316 (7129) 422-426.
BMJ 1998;316:1603 ( 23 May )

Correction

Miscellaneous

Obituaries
Some editorial errors have occurred in recent obituaries. In Dr John England's obituary (7 February, p 478) we wrongly saidthat he died in 1997; he died in 1996. In Dr David Rice's obituary(7 March, p 783) we wrongly said that he had a Guillain-Barréattack in 1947; the attack was in 1974.

Systematic review ofdietary intervention trials to lower blood total cholesterol infree-living subjects
Poor layout of the authors' addresses inthis paper by J L Tang and colleagues (18 April 1998, pp 1213-20)may have caused some confusion. Dr J M Armitage (the correspondingauthor) is at the Clinical Trial Service Unit and EpidemiologicalStudies Unit, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford OX2 6HE, and ProfessorC A Silagy is at Flinders University of South Australia Schoolof Medicine, Adelaide.

Single dose vitamin A treatment in acuteshigellosis in Bangladeshi children: randomised double blind controlledtrial
In the abstract of this paper by Shahadat Hossain and colleagues(7 February, pp 422-6) two digits were wrongly reversed: in thesecond sentence of the results, 8/14 (20%) should have read 8/41(20%).