Bacterial Flora. The Role of Environmental Factors**From the Department of Dermatology, Baylor University College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.

ABSTRACTIt was concluded from this study that bacterial skin populations in certain areas of the body, namely the back, the groin, and the hands, increase with increasing temperature and humidity. Neither high temperature alone nor high humidity alone will provoke a similar increase under the experimental conditions described. Home (1) observed that a minimum temperature and humidity appear to be important in the seasonal variation of certain infectious skin diseases, and this study provides some experimental basis for his observation