158 J. B CLELAND. 
Men’’ in a communication to the Victorian branch of the 
British Medical Association about six months before his 
article in the Medical Journal of Australia, referred to 
above. About the same time he also submitted a preliminary 
report to the Victorian Board of Health, expressing the 
opinion that the disease was the same in mice and men. 
On August 7th, 1917, we had an opportunity of examining 
a man who had come from West Wyalong, one of the mice- 
infected districts, where he had been engaged in re-bageing 
and lumping wheat. He had extensive, rather cireular, 
raised areas of dermatitis with pus formation on the left 
forearm, the chin and upper lip, and smaller lesions on the 
right forearm and left thigh. From several of the lesions 
abundant pure cultures of a ringworm were grown. 
About this period, and on till November, reports of the 
occurrence of ringworm, especially in children, were com- 
mon in the areas in which the mice were prevalent. Cases 
were especially brought under our notice at Narrabri and 
Narromine. Two clinical forms appeared to occur—one 
in the limbs or face showing intense dermatitis, with pus 
formation, as in the case mentioned; the other affecting the 
scalp or face, and producing bald, circinate, somewhat red- 
dish patches. I had an opportunity of seeing an interesting 
series of cases near Narromine. A baby, under a year old, 
followed quickly by two dogs and a cat, developed a bald 
ringworm of the scalp. In the three animals the hairy 
faces were affected. Later on an adult in the family also 
became affected. Whilst in the latter case the infection may 
have been derived from the baby, I came to the conclusion, 
partly on account of the almost simultaneous appearance of 
the ringworms in the first four hosts mentioned, partly 
because the dogs, and probably the cat also, would not be 
allowed in close proximity to so young a child, that these 
four had all been infected from a common source. The 
