Abstract
The foreign body patients during 1946 to 1962 in the Otolaryngological Clinic, Miike Mining Company Hospital were 938, that is, 55.2 per year, their percentage to all the outpatients was 0.97 and the number of the foreign bodies was 947.
The frequency of localisation: pharynx 37.9%, external auditory canal 35.7%, nasal cavity 13.2%, esophagus 9.0%, larynx 2.9%, trachea and bronchus 1.3%.
Both the statistics of the distribution of cases according to age, sex, side, month, and season, and those of the relationship between the localisation of foreign bodies and the criteria above mentioned were observed and compared with a few other papers of this sort.
The local frequency of each foreign body in author's clinic remarkably differs from those in the clinics of university medical schools. It was recognized that the statistics about foreign bodies is more or less influenced by environment, climate and the character of hospitals.
