The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-10-05

So bhSy oVbCNS thClhoCNCo IhS Wv
tins of kidney trouble" 1t is a
thing for hookworm pa
tients to suffer for years with what
they call Consumption kidney
heart disease" "dropsy,"
dyspepsia or malaria" These
troubles vanish, like mag
ic when the patient has been treat
ed for few weeks, and will not re-
turn il the conditions surrounding
the home are as they should be.
The symptoms outlined above are
those found in severe cases of the
disease. In a mild case of the
disease the child may be full grown
for his age, and his color may
be good. The only evidence of dis
ease is indigestion or an occasional
headache. 1t is in these cases that
we must use a microscope to make
a diagnosis.o Some persons imagine
that hookwprm disease is found
is not true. The disease recognizes
nc social barrier. 1t is fouE.
among rich and poor and high and
low. If people go barefooted or
wear leakly shoes where there are
no sanitary closets, they will c..
tinue to have hooRworm disease.
Is There n Cure?
The disease can be easily cured
except in the extreme cases. There
is no danger in taking the medicine
TO expel the worms provided the di-
rections of a physician are follow
ed. If the disease is mild, it may
be cured with two doses of medi-
cine given a week apart. Severe
cases require four or five doses.
Improvement usually takes place as
soon as the treatment is completed
and sometimes before. There is no
other disease which is cured so
quickly. In children the improve
ment is extremely rapid. In a few
weeks the child is transformed
from a sallow, weak Individual, to
rosy checked child full of energy.
In ether persons the changes are not
30 marked. If a grown person has
had the disease since childhood, and
is severely infected, he can be
greatly improved but the ear marks
# the disease are always there.
In one of our coast counties, a
boy seventeen years of age was
SO severely infected that he was
unable to walk over a half mile
without resting. A week after
treatment he walked four miles. He
is now enjoying good health. Often
have seen young men so i'll with
the disease that they could do moth
ing which required any more exer-1
tion than chewing tobacco or fish
ing. A few doses of medicine
would enable these men to follow a
plow all day or to do other hard
work. Think of the many persons
in our State who are now leading d
life of misery on account of this
disease. Sometimes the disease
kills; more often it weakens the
system so that the person dies of
fever, pneumonia or some
other diseaes. If these people
could be cured and could earn
wages and pay taxes think how
much the revenue of your county
and of the State at large would be
increased. These people are now
consumers. Let US cure them SO
hat they may become producers. |
We need no drones in our hive.
There is work for every man, wo-
man and child to do.
We are spending thousands of
collars each year to educate our
children, and we should spend much |
II ore, but many of these children
cannot learn. This is no laziness; |
Il is because they are sick with
lookworm disease or something
else. 1t is time for us to stop
his economic drain. It has been
going on too long. OF the 10000
school children examined in this
State last year Gin rural schools) |
ess than 20 per cent were abso-
utely healthy. May had hookworm
iisease. throat disease, eye diesase
md otGer diseases of a more or less
serious nature requiring medical at
ention. About rs per cent, of
hem had defective teeth. We are
rying to force these children to |
earn when they are unable to do
proper work because of their ply
'ical condition. In hookworm dis
Ease the child is usually dull |
md advances slowly in school. Is
t cheaper to have these children |
reated or let them go untreated
Ind perhaps die before they are
grown?
Hookworm disease Is not a new
disease. 1t has been in this coun-
ry for several generations but has |
'niy recently been recognized.
How We Can Get Rid of the Dis |
ease.
First: Every person with the
disease should be treated.
Second: There should be no soil |
pollution. If you have an unsanitary
privy (cut p you should make it
sanitary - that is, make it fly
proof by putting flaps on the seat
and on the rear (see cuts 4, 5, and
ID Buckets or other recepticles
should be used and kept clean. If
you have no privy build one like
that shown in cut aud use the
barrels shown in cut 35. The en-
tire cost of the material including
barrels and connecting pipe should
rot be more than $40 or $1,000.
Ihere are several types of privies
which can be used. Write the
State Board of Health for informa-
ion