The present paper is based upon the observations of children in the homes where non-leprous children of leprous parents are accomodated. It is a common finding that the skin of these children are very dry and coarse, which are more marked on the palms and soles. This is apparently due to the inactivities of the sebacious glands of skin. Another peculiarity common to these children is the enlargements of tonsils and adenoids. In the majority of the children in our homes these glands show marked hypertrophy. It has been reported that in the leprous children and youths the involvements of the mucous membrane of mouth and the upper respiratory tracts are very common, but the tonsils are not the primary sites of the attack of leprous organisms although they are usually very much enlarged. Whether or not the tonsils are the first sites of the invasion of the organism remain for further study. But the clinical findings of the enlargements of tonsils of all the non-leprous children are very interesting

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I made a statistical observation on affections of the brows and eyelashes in 834 cases of lepers and their relation to affections of the eyes, and obtained the following results.
I found out changes of the brows in 60, 50% and those of the eyelashes in 40, 28%, the changes being almost due to leprous infiltration of these parts.
In a majority of cases the brows and eyelashes came off wholly and symmetrically. But in a few cases small and weak hairs remained at the inner side of the brows and in the upper eyelashes.
As above mentioned, falling hairs of the brows and eyelashes should be caused always by a leprous infiltration. But it was not seen in simple cases of maculo-anaesthetic or nervous leprosy against previous studies. Leprous cases, in which falling hairs of the brows and eyelashes were found, should be included in nodular leprosy, or at least distinguished from simple nervous leprosy. Since the face was considered to be a predisposing place of leprous infiltration and falling hairs of the brows and eyelashes could be easily demonstrated, an exact examination of the face must be carried out in making a correct diagnosis of leprosy.
I also found that leprous affections of the eyes combined falling hairs in the brows and eyelashes. This fact indicated that leprous affections of the eyes followed leprous infiltration of their surrounding parts and was not transmitted from other separated parts of the body. This fact also was in accord with my previous findings that leprous change was seen intensiver in the front part of the eyes

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A serological test was carried out in 63 cases of leper and 29 cases leprophobia by the WaR. and so called freezing point method.
1) In IO of 63 cases the WaR. was positive. 5 of these IO sera showed a positiveness in both methods. Other 5 sera (8% of all sera) Showed a positive WaR. but a negative freezing point method.
2) 2 of 29 cases of leprophobla showed a positive WaR. and negative freezing point method. Practically these 2 cases, therefore, could be diagnosed as leper by the serological examination. It was interesting to notice that these 2 cases were sisters and had a leprous brother in their family, though they had no visible symptoms of leper.
3) In short, the freezing point method seemed to have a value in making the diagnosis of lepers to a certain extent, though the negativeness of the method against the positive WaR. appeared in a small number

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