Abstract
When the personnel of the 20th General Hospital was first exposed to laundered clothes, soon after arrival in the C. B. I. theater, a small epidemic of patchy made its appearance, which in all instances was distressing and in a few was temporarily incapacitating. The exact localization of the circumscribed patches of on that part of the skin in contact with the mark and the course of the lesions made it quite obvious that this represented a contact induced by the marking fluid which the native dhobies or washermen used in making their characteristic laundry marks (fig. 1). Having now completed identification of the causative agent, we make this report with a view of recording dhobie mark dermatitis as an entity which, to the best of our knowledge, has not been reported previously. We believe that our observations suggest a possible derivation of the term
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