The Elbert County tribune., 1913-10-24
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from that time forward numerous writers have
described the symptoms of this disease without
appreciating or understanding its cause. AS
we have mentioned, Dubin undoubtedly deserves
the credit of first assocating Miners Anaemia
or Tunnel disease with the presence OF a para
site worm. One of the many troubles which
has for years than cares to recall
vexed the economist of the southern part OF
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" or Poor white trash" About the be-
ginning OF the present century Professor Stiles
OF Washington able to show tlat 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 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 Its effects were Identical with the An
cyostoma. OF different species and even
genus. and this he named Necator americanus
It was for some years thought that this N.
amerieanus was peculiar to America, and the
uninformed labeled It the "Germ-of-idleness'
Schoolmasters and college presidents looked for
ward to virus weakened under cultivation until
inoculation would confer immunity to laziness
on schooboys and college students little
later pgmfes from the Semliki Forest.
who were brought by some enterprising impre-
sario for exhibition In musc-halls, 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 World
has had to pay for the Institution OF slavery.
Since then Leper has shown that Necato.'
americanus is almost widely distributed in
the Old World in the New.
There are many details about the tunnel worm
which are III adapted for newspaper discussion;
but may at least point out that with proper
provision, 1t may be controlled. To great
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 Ancylostomasis
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
26 per cent of the inhabitants and practically
cured another 17.5 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 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 MIR. James Bryce. late British ambassador at
Washington. in these words Its success In es
Gaping all charges OF partialty or corruption as
well as In producing efficiency in the work and
contentment among the workers. has indeed been
such as 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-
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 moral can be drawn from the case that
moral recommends not democratic collectfyism
bpt military autocracy."