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from that time forward numerous writer's have
described the symptoms of this disease without
approaching or understanding its cause AS
we have mentioned, Dubini undoubtedly deserves
the credit Of first associating Miners Anaemla
or Tunnel disease with the presence of a 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 or
the United States is the existence OF a large
population OF degraded white people, sometimes
referred to by the black citizens as Poor mean
whites" OF Poor white trash" About the be-
ginning of the present century Professor Stiles
of Washington able TO show that the de-
porable 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 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 americanus
1t was for some years thought that this N
americans peculiar to America, and the
uniformed labeled it the "Germ-of-dleness.
Schoomasters and college presidents looked for
ward to a virus weakened under cultivation until
incubation would confer immunity to lazness
on schoolboys and college students. little
later some pigmies from the Semliki Forest.
who were brought by some enterpTisng impre-
sario for exhibition in musc-has, passed down
the Nile, and. reaching Cairo, were inspected
by Looss. who discovered in them Necator ameri-
canus. Probably this was 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 i'm the New.
There many details about the tunnel worm
which are i'll adapted for newspaper dscusson
but may at least point out that, with proper
Otigi MAJ 10 Had To
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
placed at 30 per cent. of the local death rate;
but by assiduous and most careful treatment
the authorities in that island managed to cure
26 per cent OF the inhabitants and practically
cured another 175 per cent. while 40 per cent.
of their patients were still tunder treatment at
cent ceased TO return, and only OF per cent.
died This admirable work was effected without
any great cost
The triumph of the Americans in making the
Canal zone" a health resort is summed up
by Mr.. James Bryce late British ambassador at
Washington, in these words: Its SUI cess in es-
Gaping all charges or Partially or corruption. as
well in producing efficiency in the work and
contentment among the workers, has indeed been
such as to make some persons draw from Il an
argument in favor OF state control of all great
enterprises. To the unbiased observer II is rath.
er an instance of the efficiency obtainable by
vestng 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 moral can be drawn from the case that
moral recommends not democratic collectiusm
but military autocracy."