Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1913-10-24
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from that time forward numerous writer's have
described the symptoms of this disease without
approaching understanding Its cause. AS
we have mentioned, Dubini undoubtedly deserves
the credit of first associating Miners Anaemia
or Tunnel disease with the presence of para
site worm One of the many troubles which
has for more years than one cares to recall,
vexed the economist Of the southern part Oh
the United States is the existence of large
population of degraded white people, sonetmes
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 Whlcn
was thought to be identical with the Ancylos-
toma doudenale we have described above But
ten years ago Stiles found out that the worm
although it's effects were identical with the An
cylostoma was of different species and even
genus and this he named Necator amerlcanus
1t was for some years thought that this n.
americanus was peculiar to America, and the
uniformed labeled 1t the "Germ-of-idleness. ,"
Schoolmasters and college presidents looked for
ward to virus weakened under cultivation until
incubation would confer immunity to laZlness
on schoolboys and college students nttie
later some pigmies from the Seml1k1 Forest
who were brought py some enterpr1s1ng lmpre
sario' for exhibition in music-halls, passed down
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 Worlo
has had to pay for the institution of slavery.
Since then Leper has shown that Necator
americanus is almost 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;
but one may at least point out that with proper
provision, it may be controlled. TO great ex-
tent 1t 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 Ancylostomiass were
placed at 80 per cent. of the local death rate;
but by assduous 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 still under treatment at
the time of writing The remaining 1914 per
cent. ceased to return, and only or per cent.
died This admirable work was effected without
any great cost.
The triumph of the Americans in making the
Canal zone" 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 partiality or corruption,
well as in producing efficiency in the work and
contentment among the workers, has indeed been
such as to maze some persons draw from 1t an
argument in favor of state control OF all great
enterprises To the unbiased observer 1t is rath-
er an instance of the efficiency obtainable 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 mora: can be drawn from the case that
moral recommends not democratic collectinsm
but military autocracy"