Results: Replies were obtained from 24 institutes. Cure was judged on the basis of the closure of the hernia orifice. The number of infants who underwent the taping treatment was 1,320. Cure was achieved in 908 infants, whereas no cure was found in 158 infants; 48 infants dropped out owing to skin disorders and results were not known in 206. Among the 333 infants in whom monitoring without treatment was performed, spontaneous cure was seen in 146 infants and no cure in 111 infants; results were not known in 76. The cure rate of taping treatment was significantly higher than that of monitoring without treatment (85.2% vs. 56.8%, p<0.05, χ2 test). Furthermore, the duration until cure was less than 4 months in about 80% of the infants with taping treatment, whereas the duration in many infants monitored without treatment was more than 1 year.