Mountain advocate., 1912-07-12
HOOKWORM
SANITORIUM
To Be Located In knox
County
First Dispensary of lhe Kind
IN the United States

ment OF hOOkwOrm. IL VIII ne STU
ated in Knox County where 1900
persons are now infected with the
disease. Immediately after the ad
journment of the conference of tn,
city and county health officers of the
State, party ofphysicians from the
State Board of Health under the di
rections OF A. T. Mccormack, Chic
State Sanitary Inspector, will 60 to
Knox County and make an effort "a
stamp out the disease within six
weeks time
The physicians will visit every
town and hamlet in the county and
will take laboratories and micro.
scopsts with them for the purpose
OF diagnosing cases in the field.
The establishment of the hrst in
stitution for the treatment of the
hook worm has grown out OF the
discussion of the disease at the first
annual conference of the city and
county health officers at the Armorv
Although it is known tact that
the disease is prevalent in sixty.one
counties out of 100 in Kentucky, no
effort has been made heret ofore to
fight the injection in its home and
wipe it out entirely.
The Knox County Board OF Health
has made the first survey in the
South and has compiled a map on
which is shown where every case of
hookworm disease exists With a
complete survey it will be possible
for the health officers to eradicate
the disease in that particular terri
>tory and teach the people how to
prevent the return of the parasite.
At all sessions Yesterday authen-
tic statistics were presented by health
experts who have been Investigating
the disease since it was discovered in
State IN December 1910. Lectures
accompanied by steropticon views
served as an education for many Of
the health officers attending the con.
ference and il is believed that these
talks will help health officers who
expect to return to their homes
where the disease is prevalent.
The results of laboratory work
were discussed last night by DR..
Lillian South. State Bactcriologist.
She illustrated her address with pic
lures of hookwosm specimens of
hook worm before and after diagno-
sis. She also showed conditions in
the mountain districts where the
hook worm is a common disease and
where many hundreds of persons die
of it every year. Others who took
part in the discussion were DR. Z. b.
Bradley. bacteriologist, OF Fayetee
County and DIR. A. A. Stoll.
As the hookworm is found where
ever there is polluted ground. most
OF the cases the speaker said. were
to be found wherever there were nm.
sanitary. homes or schoolhouses. In
the mountain district it was shown
that every child attending a certain
school was infected by the parasite
because The schooolhouse was I'm.
sanitary, and had no lavatory. In
Knox ounty every schoolhouse is
tn he equipped with sanitary lava.
tol les the plans of which are to he
drawn by the State Board OF
Health.
The ,Xamina tons mnde so lar in
Kentucky indicate that the disease
is TAR less prevalent among the ne
groes than in the whites DIR South
declared that children or young
adults are the greatest suffers from
the d,sease. However she said, cases
have cen found in very young
children and very old men.
Tulricdlosis. its pre-, entention
Al, ,pis, wPs the subject which was