Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-10-24

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 assocatng 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 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 was 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 doudenae we have described above, But
ten wears 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 amercanus.
II was for some years Thought that this NJ
americanus peculiar to America, and the
uniformed labeled 1t the "Germ-ofdleness."
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 Semlih Forest
who were brought by some enterprising mpre-
sario for exhibition in music-halls, passed down
the Nile and on reaching Cairo. 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 Leper has shown that Necator
americans is almost widely distributed in
the Old World in the New.
There are many details about the tunnel worm
which are nj adapted for newspaper discussion;
but one may at least point out that, with proper
provision, 1t may be controlled, To great ex-
tent il 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 Ancylostomiasls were
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 175 per cent, while 40 per cent.
of their patients still under treatment at
the time Of writing. The remaining 1917 per
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" 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 in producing efficiency in the work and
contentment among the workers, has indeed been
such to make some persons draw from 1t an
argument in favor of state control of all great
enterprises. To the unbiased observer it is rath
instance of the efficiency obtainable by
vesting full administrative control in men whose
uprightness and capacity have already beer
proved beyond question. who have not risen by
political methods, and who have nothing to gair
by any misuse of their powers. So far as any
political moral can be drawn from the case, thai
moral recommends not democratic collectilism
but military autocracy."