INCIDENCE OF FOOT RINGWORM AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS

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A careful survey has been made among the lower classmen at the University of California at Berkeley as part of an intensive piece of research on ringworm of the feet. The data obtained afforded certain conclusions in regard to personal and gymnasium hygiene. During the physical examination conducted by the university physician for 1928-1929, it was found that the incidence to ringworm of the feet among 3,100 freshmen entrants was 53.3 per cent in men and 15.3 per cent among women, showing that the disease was already common among high school and preparatory school students. At the terminal period of the spring semester, another survey was made of 1,000 men and 997 women who had been engaged for two semesters in physical educationand who had entrée to the showers, swimming pools and apparatus. At the men's and women's gymnasiums it was determined that 78.6 per cent of the men students

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