Medicine: Epidemic in Retreat

In Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, 715 youngsters out of the city's 6,000 elementary-school children trooped back to classes last week with their heads covered by white skull caps. After twelve months of battle, the "Soo" is winning its fight against an epidemic of tinea capitis (ringworm of the scalp) among its youngsters (TIME, Nov. 3), but has still not been able to stamp out the stubborn disease.

Two hundred of the children wearing the cotton caps last week still had the infection; the others donned caps purely as a precaution.

The city's ordeal began in the spring of 1950: five cases...

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