HOOKWORM.
PREVALENT AMONG SAMOAN NATIVES. (By Teleeranh—Press Association.) Auokland, May 20. According to the senior medical officer (Dr. P. S. Eossiter), stationed at Pago Pago, 51 per cent, of tho natives of Amorican Samoa are suffering from .hookworm. So sorious has tho epidemic grown that Governor Parker called a meeting of tho representative chiefs of tho island Government from the various districts to discuss ways and means for the eradication of tho j disease from tho islands.
Mr. John D. Rockefeller recently announced a donation of £200,000 on tho appointment of a commission of eminent medical men to invostigato
the hookworm disease, which is prevalent in tho rural districts in the soutliorn part of the "United States. In accepting the gift, the commission declared that 2,000,000 persons of nil classes wore infested with tho parasito. Tho disease is somowhat similar to sleeping sickness, and many deaths result from it.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 821, 21 May 1910, Page 13
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