United labor bulletin., 1913-10-25
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from that time forward numerous writers have
described the symptoms OF this disease without
appreciating understanding its cause AS
we have mentioned, Dubini undoubtedly deserves
the credit OF first associaung Miners Anaemia
or Tunnel disease with the presence OF q para
sltic worm One OF the many troubles Which
has for more years than one cares 10 recall,
veSed 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 oe-
ginning OF the present century Professor Stiles
OF Washington able to show that the De
plorable condition OF this degenerate people
was due not much TO original sin as TO the
fact that they infested by worm whicn
was thought be identical with the Ancylos-
toma doudenale we have described above But
ten years ago stiles found out that the worm
although its effects were identical with the An
cylostoma OF different species ana even
genus and this he named Necator amerlcanus'
II was for some years thought that TINS ~
americanus was peculiar to America and the
uninformed labeled It the "Germ-ofidleness-
Schoomasters and college presidents looked lot
ward to a virus weakened under cultivation untii
incubation would confer immunity TO iaziness
on schoolboys and college students little
later some pigmies from the Semlih FOREST
who were brought by some enterprising impre-
sario for exhibition in musichalls, 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 Worid
has had to pay for the Institution of slavery.
Since then Leiper has shown that Necator
americanus is almost widely distributed In
the Old World as in the New
There many details about the tunnel worm
which are Ill adapted for newspaper discusson
out one may at least point out that. with proper
provision II 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 example. In Porto
Rico the deaths caused by Ancylostomiasis were
placed at so 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 LIS per cent. while 40 per cent.
the time OF writing The remaining 16ta per
cent ceased to return. and only o2 per cent.
died This admirable work effected without
any great cost
The triumph OF the Americans in making the
Canal zone health resort is summed up
by MIR. James Bryce. late British ambassador at
Washington. in these words: Its success In
Gaping all charges OF partality or corruption, as
well in producing efficiency in the work and
contentmcnt among the workers, has indeed been
such to make some persons draw from 1t an
enterprises. To the unbiased observer II is rath-
an Instance OF the efficiency obtainable by
vesting full administrative control in men whose
uprghtness 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 any
political moral be drawn from the case. that
moral recommends not democratic collectivism.
but military autocracy."