20, 6 Schwartz and Tubangui: Parasites of Man 615 
infection in man has already been recorded in the Philippines, 
as noted elsewhere in this paper. 
No data are available with regard to the occurrence of Cysti- 
cercus bovis in native cattle, because native cattle are seldom 
slaughtered in Manila abattoirs, and because in the provinces, 
where native cattle are killed for consumption, no meat-inspec- 
tion service is maintained. Cattle slaughtered in Manila are 
usually imported from French Indo-China. These imported 
cattle are singularly free from Cysticercus bovis, as shown by the 
records of the Bureau of Agriculture for the years 1914 to 1920, 
exclusive of 1916, during which period only two cases of infesta- 
tion with Cysticercus bovis were found in over 30,000 cattle 
examined post mortem for evidence of disease. According to 
Ransom(11) 1 per cent of all adult cattle slaughtered in the 
United States is infected with Cysticercus bovis. 
INFESTATION WITH HYMENOLEPIS 
One case of infestation with Hymenolepis diminuta was found 
in a male student, 20 years of age, from Samar Province; and, 
as will be shown presently, this is the first case of infestation 
with Hymenolepis diminuta in a Filipino that has ever been 
recorded. Cases of infestation with Hymenolepis diminuta in 
man are so rare the world over that reports of individual cases 
are warranted. A case from the United States and a review 
of all cases in that country recorded in the literature on para- 
sitology have been recently published by Schwartz,(14) and 
Several cases from the United States heretofore unpublished 
are to be found in that review. 
Garrison(4) refers to a case of infection with Hymenolepis 
diminuta in a Chinese prisoner in Bilibid Prison, Manila. The 
same author(6) in a report on the prevalence of intestinal para- 
Sites in man in the Philippines, based on fecal examinations of 
inmates of Bilibid Prison, refers to a case of infestation with 
Hymenolepis diminuta which is without question the same case 
as that recorded by Garrison in 1907(4) since the data published 
in 1908(5) are based on work performed in 1907 as stated by 
Garrison in the introduction to the former paper. The case 
of Hymenolepis diminuta that is recorded in this paper is, there- 
fore, the first case of infestation with this parasite in a Filipino 
that has been recorded. 
As is well known, Hymenolepis diminuta normally occurs in 
the small intestine of rats. Garrison(4) states that, in addition 
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