Gilpin observer., 1913-10-23
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from that time forward numerous writer's have
described the symptoms OF this disease without
appreciating understanding Its cause AS
we have mentioned, Dubn undoubtedly deserves
the credit of first associatng 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 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" 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 80 much to original sin as to the
fact that they were infested by worm which
was thought to be identical with the Ancylos-
toma doudenae have described above. But
ten years ago Stiles found out that the worm.
although it's effects were Identical with the An
cylostoma of different species and even
genus. and this he named Necator amercanus
1t for some years thought that this N
americanus peculiar to America. and the
uninformed labeled II the "Germ-of-dleness.
Schoolmasters and college presidents looked for
ward to a virus weakened under cultivation until
incubation would confer immunity to laziness
schoolboys and college students. little
later pigmies from the Semliki Forest
who were brought by enterprisng impre-
sario for exh lbition in musc-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 i'I 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 Ill adapted for newspaper discussion:
but one may at least point out that. with proper
provision, II may be controlled. To a great ex.
tent II IL controlled in the Panama canal region
and other districts by the American sanitary
officials To take but example. In Porto
Rico the dea tbs caused by Ancylostomiasis we're
placed at 80 per cent. OF the local death rate:
but by ASST suous and most careful treatment
the authoritins In that island managed to cure
26 per cent Of the inhabitants and practically
cured anoth sr IT'S per cent. while 40 per cent.
Of their pat tents we're still under treatment At
the time O. writing. The remaining IGN per
cent. .ceasel to return, and only 0.2 per cent
died. This admirable work was effected without
any great cost
The trui nph Of the Americans In making the
Canal 20 ne" health resort is summed up
by Mr. jar mes Bryce. late British ambassador at
Washingto n. in these words: Its success in es
Gaping all charges OF partiality or corruption %
well as III producing efficiency In the work and
snt among the workers, has indeed been
such TO make some persons draw from It an
argumen in favor Of state control of all great
snterprf bes. To the unbiased observer It is rath
Or Instance Of. the efficiency obtainable BY
vestng full administrative control in men whose
lprghtI less and capacity have already been
proved beyond question. who have not risen BY
)olitica methods. and who have nothing to gain
~ any misuse Of their powers. SO far as any
,oticsi moral can be drawn from the case, that
moral recommends not democratic collectivism,
mt m tlitary autocracy."