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To the Editor: —It is always useful to exchange views in the relative informality of brief communications, and the opportunity to add to Dr. Hinman's remarks is appreciated. Dr. Hinman's remarks are addressed to three points. The first is a precise and accurate statement of the meaning of the term bacteriuria. The second is an attack on the apparent misuse of the concept of bacteriuria in a few of the studies that have appeared recently in the literature. The third is a general criticism of the use of quantitative criteria of bacteriological diagnosis of infection of the urinary tract in individual patients, as opposed to studies of large populations, because of the statistical nature of the validation of the use of the quantitative approach. Dr. Hinman's analysis, with respect to the first two points, is one with which I have no important disagreements, even in the area in which I
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