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Physician Queen Mary's Hospital for the East End, and the British Red Cross Clinic for Rheumatism, and (with Physical Medicine) Royal Free Hospital, Heberden Lecturer in Rheumatism.) During the last twenty years very little literature of a statistical nature has come into existence in this country on the subject of rheumatism amongst adults, although in child life investigations frequent studies have been made of its incidence amongst juveniles. The principal report on adult rheumatism still remains that on the investigation carried out in I924 by a committee of the medical staff of the Ministry of Health'. The committee analysed records of 2,5IO cases of rheumatism collected during 1922 amongst a population of * Throughout this report the criteria of significance adopted is that of twice the standard error. A difference to be real, i.e. unlikely to have arisen by chance, must exceed twice its standard error.

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