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groups, Group I, with 43 per cent improved and 49 per cent 

 stationary, gave by far the poorest results so far as improve- 

 ment is concerned. The figures of Group II contrast interest- 

 ingly, with 59 per cent improved and but 39 per cent stationary. 

 The "worse" figure of this group, 2 per cent, is the lowest of 

 the four. 



Table 8.— Progress under \ 



1 " _ 



— 



ft»ML 





Hwtt~ 



Moderate. 



Slight. 



To... 









15 



ii 



35 









1 



_ 



— 



— 



Percentages. 



1 



Improved. 





.»«.. 



1 1 



1 



2 



i 



I 



» 









' 



With the creosoted preparations, Group III gave practically 

 the same improvement rate as Group II, but the "worse" rate, 

 14 per cent, was by far the highest in the series, almost twice 

 as high as Group I, and three and a half times that of Group 

 IV. The latter group gave the most satisfactory figures of the 

 series; the improvement rate, 81 per cent, is higher than the 

 next best by 12, the stationary rate is the lowest, and the worse 

 rate, 4 per cent, is comparatively low. 



These are total figures, for the groups of both of us. The 

 individual figures, arrived at independently, correspond fairly 

 closely. 



RELATION BETWEEN AMOUNT OP CREOSOTE AND IMPROVEMENT 



It has been the experience in the treatment work at Culion 

 that, in general, the total improvement rate goes hand in hand 

 with the amount of chaulmoogra injected. In other words, the 

 larger the dose regularly taken the better the improvement. As 

 regards creosote, we cannot draw any definite conclusion as to 

 the relation between the amount administered and the improve- 

 ment on the basis of the present observations. However, the 



