Dr. Holló Ferenc szerk.: Parasitologia Hungarica 4. (Budapest, 1971)

the other hand, has become more frequent, especially among women. The rate of diagnosed cases among 10 000 Danish inhabitants, for instance, was 1% in 1941 and 3.2% in 1947, an increase matched in figures from Czechoslovakia, England and Yugoslavia although not by those from Roumania and Poland, which indicate some decrease in the corresponding period (KOTLÁN,1967). The figures on the incidence of taeniosis that have been recorded in Hungary since the 2nd World War 3how a considerable rise - perhaps the result of the greater care taken in notification of infections. The trend can be illustrated by the statistics for the period 1959-64: 17 cases in 1959, 39 in I960, 33 in 1961, 55 in 1962, 32 in 1963, and 47 cases in 1964. Since 1961 we have been closely following the taeniosis situation in County Borsod on the basis of the cases diagnosed in our laboratories at Miskolc, During the last 10 years a total of 133 Taenia infections have been confirmed. The territorial distribution of the cases is as follows: Miskolc 33; Sátoraljaújhely 7; Sárospatak 14; Ózd 1; Kazincbarcika 1; district of Miskolc 21; district of Edelény 17; district of Szerencs 14; district of Encs 6; district of MezŐcsát 5» district of Sátoraljaújhely 3; district of Mezőkövesd 3; and in the community of Egercsehi (County Heves) one case. The data for the last ten years are given in the table below: 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 Total 16 22 11 13 15 17 4 15 12 8 133 At first sight the number of cases appears to have decreased since 1962. The overwhelming majority of the cases in which the Taenia species concerned is known were infections with T. saginata (79 cases); T. solium was diagnosed in only 6 cases (all in the early 1960s). In the remaining 48 cases the diagnosis was es-