The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-10-23
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from that time forward numerous writers 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 of para
site worm. One of the many troubles which
has for more years than cares to recall,
yexed the economist of the southern part or
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 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 were infested by a worm which
was thought to be identical with the Ancylos-
toma doudenale 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 a different species and even
genus and this he named Necator americans.
It was for years thought that this n.
ameriCanus peculiar 10 America, and the
uniformed labeled it the "Germ-ofidleness
Schoomasters and college presidents looked for
ward to 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 by some enterprisng impre-
saro for exhibition in music-halls, passed down
the Nile and, on 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 In the New.
There are many details about the tunnel worm
which are Al adapted for newspaper discussion
hat vtt1
provision, 1t may be controlled. To great ex-
tent it 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 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
26 per cent Of the inhabitants and practically
cured another 17.5 per cent, while 40 per cent.
of their patients were still under treatment at
the time of writing The remaining 1877 per
cent ceased to return, and only 0.2 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 Mr. James Bryce late British ambassador at
Washington, in these words: Its success in es-
Gaping all charges of Partially corruption, as
well in producing efficiency in the work and
contentment among the workers, has indeed been
such to make some persons draw from it an
argument in favor of state control of all great
enterprises To the unbiased observer it is rath-
er an instance of the efficiency obtainabe by
vesting full administrative control in 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 collectvism.
but military autocracy."