The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-09-27
FACTS ABOUT H00xN0RV
Active Steps for its E~radtcatio,
Go Forward in the State
me fisures Given as to the FHamia,
0 at tic Methodist orphan,a.
and Facts Set forta as to orh..
Conditions in the STATE

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Conditions in the STATE
The forces enlisted in North ,
lima in the fight against b,ay-,.
disease continue to grow. Pasi5.-
work being done by the state R,sr5
OF Health, as has been laf,r. a.
nounced, the State A-ssoe,a+f.r ""[
County superintendent AS ~
pledged It's hearty CO-0peratinr ,r ,+'
fight. At its recen meeting the WIZ
County Medical Society PASSED r.s1r,
tons endorsing the work, pIrdgfnc -.
support and Offering to prescribe b9aIS
worm treatment free to those ,r,tf.
to a The Wake County Wornaro
Betterment Association has offered t1
pay Tor all drugs needed 10y The uonr
IN the county desiring treatment
The State. Federation of Womaro
Clubs have taken some steps Id han
in the work along similar lines Tha
Vance County Medical Society passed
a resolution at its recent Session an
pointing an influential member of tina
society TO write for the county nan4r
an article on the symptoms. prtven-
ton and cure of hOOkWOrm disease.
and further that two physicians "a
to different sections OF the county and
in cooperation With the County Board
Of Education make addresses ON The
disease. Still more recently the Guil-
ford County Medical Society has de-
cided to AVE a s~emi-pubIic meeting
for discussions on hookworm disease
October 4th, to which the county Of
~ficials, leading educators. farmers.
merchants. manufacturers and editors
Will be invited to attend and p3rtci-
pate in the deliberations. A pamph-
let on hookWOrm disease ISSUED by
J.. Y. Joyner, superintendent of Public
instruction, is now ready and Will be
put in the hands of the school hi
dren throughout the State. Moreover,
many county medical societies have
Ia discussions on hoOkworm disease.
About six thousand cases that have
been treated by doctors for the dis
ease have been reported 10 the state
Board of Health.
An examination Of the one hundred
and thirty-one orphans Of the Metho-
dist Orphanage has just been com
pleted and taken together with the
other Investigations which have been
made is startling. The first work was
among college students, The tahuIa-
ton of results showed that more tnan
one-third of six hundred examined
microscopicany had hOokWorm dis
ease. The examination Of moro than
a thousand North Carolina ml]ItIamen
showed forty-twO per OF them ~
fected, an examination of nInet}-Six
children at the Odd Fellows Orphan
G showed ffty-four per cent OF
them infected with hookWorm- ana
that three girls and two boys mo
did not have ooh worm had an III
lection with dwarf tape worms.
An investigation just completed OF
Methodist orphans shows the I"i-
lowing for hookWOrm disease.
Boys-Infected, So; not infected. 10
total, As; per cent. infected, -.
Girls-Infected, a; not infected. 49,
total, IS; per cent infected. %.
Totals-Infa cted, so; not lnlc''r1'
81; total, 131; per cent, infected ~
Three girls and three boys were
found to have in addition 10 noon.
worm infection an infection WIN u"d't
tape worms. Moreover, four &It'S .o1
having hookWorm disease had .nT
dwarf tape worms, making d loo".
Of ten cases Of dwarf tape worms ~
rs per cent. There was Only ono
case of seat worms, II rather sH-
guIar indeed not one had the "ioL
nary round or stomach worms
showing rather the converse '' 49,.
will be seer when the eAdI1Iha''oI
of the Colored Masonic O~rphah"-' GO"
Oxford is completed.