Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1913-10-24
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fror, that time forward numerous writer's have
described the symptoms of this disease without
appreciating or understanding It's cause. AS
we have mentioned, Dubini undoubtedly deserves
the credit of first associating Miners Anaemia
or Tunnel disease with the presence or para
site worm. One of the many troubles which
has for more years than one cares to recall.
yexed the economist of the southern part of
the United States is the existence of large
population of degraded white people, sometimes
referred to by the black citizens as Poor mean
whites" or Poor white trash" About the be-
ginning of the present century Professor Stiles
of Washington was able to show that the de-
plorable condition of this degenerate people
was due not so much to original sin as to the
fact that they were infested by worm which
was thought to be identical with the Ancylos-
toma doudenae have described above. But
ten years ago Stiles found out that the worm,
although its effects were identical with the An
cylostoma was of a different species and even
genus and this he named Necator americanus.
1t was for some years thought that this N
americanus peculiar to America, and the
uniformed labeled 1t the "Germ-of-idleness
Schoolmasters and college presidents looked for
ward to a virus weakened under cultivation until
incubation would confer immunity to laziness
on schoolboys and college students. little
later some pigmies from the Semliki Forest,
who were brought py some enterprising impre-
sario for exhibition in music-halls passed down
the Nile and, reaching Cairo, were Inspected
by Looss who discovered in them Necator ameri-
canus. Probably this introduced some CEN
turtles ago into America from Africa with the
slaves and is part of the debt the New World
has had to pay for the institution of slavery.
Since then Leiper has shown that Necator
americanus is almost as widely distributed in
the Old World as in the New.
There are many details about the tunnel worm
which are i'll adapted for newspaper discussion;
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provision it may be controlled To great ex-
tent II is controlled in the Panama canal region
and other districts by the American sanitary
officials To take but one example In Porto
Rico the deaths caused by Ancylostomiasis we're
placed at 80 per cent. OF the local death rate;
but by assiduous and most careful treatment
the authorities In that island managed to cure
&c per cent OF the inhabitants and practically
cured another It's per cent, while 40 per cent.
of their patients were still under treatment at
the time OF writing The remaining 161s per
cent. ceased to return. and only or per cent.
died This admirable work effected without
any great cost.
Canal zone" a health resort is summed up
by Mr.. James Bryce, late British ambassador at
Washington, in these words: "Its success in es-
Gaping all charges of Partially or corruption as
well as In producing efficiency in the work and
contentment among the workers, has indeed been
such as to make some persons draw from it an
argument in favor of state control Of all great
enterprises To the unbiased obser1er It is rath-
er an instance of the efficiency sbtainable BY
vesting full administrative control in men whose
uprightness and capacity have already been
proved beyond question. who have not risen BY
political methods, and who have nothing to gain
by any misuse of their powers. So far as any
political tloral can be drawn from the case that
moral recommends not democratic eolIectiyism
but military autocraey."