All of the children in the first 3 grades were examined by 10 examiners, not all of them trained in speech correction. Above the 3d grade children were seen who were referred by teachers as being speech-defective. Of 4685 enrolled in the schools 10.1% were found to have some speech defect. While on the average there was a sharp reduction in the total number of speech defects above the 3d grade (33% vs. 2.1%) there was a large increase in the number of serious cases in ratio to the total number of defects. A number of other statistical findings are of interest. The sex index of speech defects is again confirmed, the greatest variant being in stuttering, in which 5 [male] stuttered to one [female].