On one afternoon, among those who passed us on the road, I counted eighty persons with the deformity.

On another day nine adults were climbing a path, by which we had just descended, every one of whom had goitre.

In one small village, out of eighteen full-grown men and women whom I met in the street down which I rode, fifteen were affected.

My diary in the West, especially from Yunnan City to Yungchang, after which point the cases greatly diminished in number, became a monotonous record of cases.
At the mission in Tali three women are employed, and of these two are goitrous; the third, a Minchia woman, is free from the disease, and I have been told that among the indigenes the disease is much less common than among the Chinese.

On all sides one encounters the horrible deformity, among all classes, of all ages.