The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1912-06-14
SANITATION IS
The ONLY CHECK
Hook Worm as Horrible as
tuberculosis.
Counties Of Kentucky Should See
That Sanitation is
Regarded.

twenty-five coantics in KrntucE
have reported cases uf hoohworm dur
inl, the last ycarard the Statc Board O
IIcnlth has been aroused 10 uuusuI
vilicance over the prevalence OF tn
disease in such "A widuspr, ai area Of III
State. The counties in which, the dis
c.se has manifested itself to the most
alarming extent lie, for the most part
in the extreme southeastern portion %
tho state. There are a few counties II
the middle southern portion. and fo,I
in the western part of the state where
hookworm has been found to flourish.
HOW TO AVOID PEST.
The general disregard for sanitation
in the country and small towns and the
outskirts of the larger ones is RESPONSE
bie for nearly all the cases of hook
worm, according to the Bulletin. This
paper says:
1.-THE infection cannot spread in COM
munities provided with good sewer
systems, and in the smaller towns and
villages the spread will be proportion al
to the number and style of closets AMI
the carelessness exercised in keeping;
them. A careful sanitary survey is be-
ing made in each county, and 1t apea;s
that considerably less than 10 per cent.
OF our farm homes have closets of any
sort.
More than 20 per cent. of the stu
dents in some of the Southern colleges
have been found infected, and in some
Of ',he common schools % per cent. of
the children have shown the infection
upon microscopicai examination. Sew
eral schools in Kentucky have been ex-
amincd showing infections of from 10
per cont. to so per cent. There is good
reasons to believe that the percentage If
infoution in some of the county schools
will run as high as 30 pcr cent.
The worms do not multiply in the
body, but the adult females deposit
great number of eggs, from a few hun
dred to three or four thousand every
day, which are passed off with the nor
NAL bowel movements. These eggs.
under favorable conditions of Temporal
young worms. called larvae, in the
course of about twenty-four hours.
Within a week the tiny organism has
shed its skin twice, much as does the
snake. 1t lives in this cast off skin.
but takes no food after the first few
days following it's escape from the egg.
now WORM ENTERS BODY.
After the shedding of the skin the
young worm is in the stage in witch it
rs canNable of entering the human body.
whtch it may do in one or two ways. |
First. it may Ice swallowed with con- |
may get into the body by boring |
the skin. In penetrating .he |
skin The cmbryos produce the condition
known as dew poison" or ground
Itch" which Is usually the first STAGE
Of hookworm disease This dew poi
son" Is generally on the feet or about
he ankles, and 1t is believed tlIat the
Wearing Of shoes will largely prevent it
and protect against hDokworm disease.
After Penetrating the skin the WORM
'nters the blood stncam, passes through
he heart and lungs. makes its way up
ne Wind-pipo or Is couShcd up AMI
wal ioyod, and after 1t passes down the
'uilet into the stomach Finally enters
he small bowels. This method of en-
erine the body t,Iat has been demon
trated in actual experiment upon |
una beings ami lower animals. Huy-
lg reached the site in the body where
ole - to reside. the worm sllqds IT.
Kin '"icc more, becomes mature auI
mates The eggs have been known 10
ops in the stools six and Dne-hl.f
'oet, after experimental skin iur,,-
oa.
Th'te is no real need of anyone bring |
-o4hei with constipation. Chamberlain
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