An error ocurred in the letter by S Ashraf and M Z Mughal in the September issue (Arch Dis Child 2002;87:263–4). In the fifth paragraph, the first sentence should read “According to the 1991 census data there were approximately 4000, 6–36 month old children of ethnic minority background resident in the city of Manchester.” The journal apologises for the error.

The photograph of children in the Morigate area in Delhi on the cover of the August issue was taken by the American photographer Mark Duerksen of Dallas, Texas.