Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-02-20
GREAT WORK FOR benefit OF
HUMANITY BEING AccoMP-
LasHED IN SOUTH.
ROCKEFELLER COMMISSION
MEETING WITH SUCCESS
OF the More Than 100000 Persons
Treated All Have Been Benefited
People Being Taught Value Of SAM
tsticr-MiiIion Dollars For Crusade
General TeIesraphie News.
Especial Correspondence.]

Especial Correspondence
Washington. Feb. 20.-One Of the
greatest works for the benefit of hu-
mainly that is being carried on any
where. is being done by the Rockefel-
Ter sanitary commission to conquer the
hookworm disease in the southern
states. The results which the crusade
against the hookwerm have accom-
plished thus far. and this in a brief
period cf little more than year. have
been surprising. They point to import
ant changes in economic conditions in
the south. where il is undeniable that
the energy of large number Of the
fnha bitants has been Slapped by the
hookworm disease
All Permanently Benefited.
The SECOND annual report OF the
Rockefeller. commission deals in inter-
esting fashion with what has been
achieved. Treatment for the hookworm
disease was administered to 140,3es
persons in nine states in the course Of
the wear 1911. says the report. This
means. according to sanitarians. that
more than 100000 persons have been
permanently benefited in health and
helped to a higher and better scale Of
living. The commission expended dur
ing the year in the work $14s.134.7o.
which was supplemented by 32s.93s.73
expended by the states concerned. The
average cost for each person treated
was $1.95 for the commission or $1.27
for the commission and the states.
Eptoms Of Work.
An epitone of the report says:
But the treating Of these 140,3ss
persons was only an inciden. in the
work: the immediate object for which
the money was expended is the educa
ton Of the people in sanitation. The
state departments Of health have en-
listed for the war against diseases
caused by insanitary conditions. The
first effort being made is toward estab-
fishing the work on a permanent basis
The organization in each state is sys
tematically enlisting the physicians In
the service so that they may be relied
Hron to treat all infected persons.
These organizations are enlisting the
press and the public schools as per-
manent educational agencies to teach
twenty millions Of people to see to 1t
that every infected person seeks ex-
animation and treatment. and ulti-
mately to stamp out the disease by
putting stop to soil pollution.
"These organizations have demon
strated by preliminary survey the
presence Of hookworm infection in 71s
OF the SS4 counties in ten states. have
completed the definite infection survey
for seventy-eight counties in nine Of
these states. and for this survey have
examined microscopically 26,51s rural
children from 6 to 10 years old: they
have completed the definite sanitary
survey In 125 counties and in so doing
have Inspected 43.44s rural homes.
sThe press and the people are back
ing the work. Public sentiment Is now
forming in favor Of an efficient county
superintendent of health in every
county to devote his whole time to the
medical examination of rural school
children and the conservation Of the
life and health Of the people"
The Rockefeller sanitary commission
was organized on Oct rs. 1909. and be-
gan work on Jan. 8. 1910 1t was Gre
ated to administer fund Of 81 ,00O, 900
given by John D. Rockefeller for the
eradication of hookworm disease in the
United States. 1t was the purpose TO
use all the fund in a f1ve-year cam
paign against the disease.
An Intestinal Parasite.
Hookworm disease ie caused by an
intestinal parasite and is found in the
tropics. sub-tropics and the warmer
parts Of the temperate countries al!
around the globe. Its victims are ane-
mic and toa greater or less extent, ac-
cording to the severity Of the infection
are impaired in physical and mental
strength The treatment is very SIM
pie, thymoI being administered to kill
the parasites. AS Infection comes only
from polluted soil successful treat
rhent usually works a permanent cure
II care is taken to prevent reinfection.
The records Of improved physical
strength, increased mental vigor, aug
mented productiveness. and elevated
social efficiency following Individual
treatments are nothing short Of the
| marvellous.
All work Of the Rockefeller commits
sion ID done in connection with state
and local health authorities, the sew
er4l agencies cooperating without