The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-19
TWO RACES MUST NOT LIVE TOGETHER Dr. Stiles Lectures on 'HOOkwOrm Disease CONTRARY TO NATURE Government Expert Gives Illustrated Lecture and States Some Sta
 tistics That Are Very
 Interesting
CONTRARY TO NATURE

Fulfilling a promise Of four years standing, Dr. Charles Wardell Stiles, the discoverer of the hookworm. delivered an l illustrated lecture before the student body of the Birmingham Medical college con corning the origin and cure of this dis | ease yesterday morning at II o'clock. The nurses of the Hillman Hospital Training | school anl members of the medical pro- fession of the city were also present, and 1 for an hour and half.
 | Dr. Stiles is connected with the govern ment Public Health and Marine Hospital department, and is now in Mississippi, | conducting experiments as he has done in | the Atlantic coast states of the south. The slides which were flashed on the screen to show the result of the past in- vestigations were mainly from North and South Carolina, Florida, and southern Alabama and Mississippi.
 Dr. t. P Hogan of the Medical college faculty presented pr. Stiles, who ex- pressed ais pleasure at again facing an other Birmingham audience after lapse | of four years.
 You cannot take up the subject of hookworm without considering three other | diseases and realize that certain condi- tions exist in the south that do not exist in any other part of the country. What ever I may say about the south is stated | from the standpoint of southern man, as I am a citizen of Raleigh, N c. As scientific men we cannot afford to refuse to look facts squarely in the face and | recognize that the south is different from any other part of the United States in that the population is "A per cent negro
 Contrary To Nature
 Tt is contrary to natures laws that two closely allied species can live and com pete in a small area. Therefore, we must look forward to whether the white or ne- gro race is gaining the superiority in the south for the two cannot go on living as they now do, in violation of one of the most rigid laws of nature. The two races have and will have competition in poli- ties, in social problems and especially dis ease. Each country has it's own disease,
 
 white man. It is a law of medical science that a disease peculiar to a given race transmitted to another given race is more severe on the second race than the first in it's death rate. This has been proven in the case of tuberculosis, which the white man gave to the negro, who In turn gave it to the Indian, and the death rate of each race is proportionally lower than the one from which 1t contracted the plague. "The churches and schools of the south. which is primarily a rural section, be- cause of their improper sanitation are the greatest spreaders of the hookworm, ty- phoid and other contagious diseases, and the Amercqn men of today are burying the women and children of the land be- cause they dc not take precautionary measures to cure preventable diseases"
 pr. Stiles, in very clear manner, traced the history of the hookworm from the sections of Africa whence came the slaves for the southern plan tations before the civil war and the story of the so called "poor whites" whose ignorance and homes were han dicaps in their fight against the hook worm. The stereopticon views dis closed the size and appearance of the worm in it's various stages of growth and the European and American species were shown and the method In which it enters the body through the skin, going into the tissues and blood cells as well as the organs of the human anatomy and causing a depletion of strength.
 Gave Statistics
 The pictures of the families and con- ditions in those parts of the country that suffered most from the hookworm infection were accon panied by sta tistics that were surprising to the average person in the fact that among the student bodies of many univer- sities and colleges he has found 30 per cent already developing the dis ease and in the rural schools almost disease. He especially had even en- countered the germs in the systems of nurses and physicians in hospitals and stated the better classes were as liable to have it as the poorer be- cause of the rapid growth of the worm, which Is eight days to full matur- ity, and the subsequent development of the disease in a few weeks. The ground itch, dew or COW poisoning are but the disease in it's inclpiency and dirt is the chief carrier of the worms. The dirt eaters, however, are those who have already become diseased with