A Report on Seven Hundred Consecutive Cases of Tinea Capitis

The following observations were made in a series of seven hundred cases of scalp ringworm seen in the Dermatological Clinic a t the London Hospital.As the ma,jority of the patients were attending the elementary schools of the districts around the hospital, the proportion of the various forms of tinea observed may be taken to represent, with some accuracy, the distribution of the ringworm parasites in the school-children of London.The hair was examined microscopically in every case and the fungus detnonstrated.. Owing t o the large amount of work in the Department it was found impossible to make cultures with any approach to regularity and the varieties of microsporon and endothrix have been grouped together.Variety offungw.-Of the 700 cases, 628 were cases of microsporon ringworm and 72 were cases of endothrix, respectively 89.8 and 10.2 per cent.&x.-405 of the 700 patients were boys and 295 girls, respectively 57.8 and 42.2 per cent.There was some difference in the sex proportion in the two varieties, the microsporon being relatively niore common in the boys.Males.Feniales.Total. Xcrosporon cases..