The Effect of Enteric Vaccine on Endemic Goitre in Children

an altitude of 5,500 feet, at a distance of 3 miles from the cantonment of Kasauli. It provides accommodation for 500 children; there being nearly equal numbers of both sexes, males slightly predominating. The ages run from 3 years to 20 years and in consequence of the fact that many of the children are orphans and of the conditions of school life peculiar to India, many of the wards, as they are designated, spend 6 to 10 years continuously in the school. The earliest records of the school note the incidence of goitre amongst the wards. By 1899 the condition had become so preval-