INCIDENCE OF SYPHILIS Practitioners in China agree that syphilis is prevalent among the Chinese. In order to secure statistical information on the subject, a request for annual reports was made of all hospitals in China. Of the reports secured, twenty-nine from fifteen different hospitals 1 contained lists of diagnoses made on inpatients. Three of these hospitals in addition published diagnoses made on outpatients. For comparison, data from the annual reports of nine hospitals 2 in America was compiled. Statistics from these two groups of hospitals are presented in Tables 1, 2 and 3. Lack of uniformity in diagnostic facilities, in disease classifications used and in methods of compiling medical statistics in the various hospitals, does not permit a close comparison of figures. It is evident from Table 1 that the incidence of syphilis among the patients of the hospitals selected is two or three times greater in China than in America.