HOOKWOR IN AUSTRALIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18117, 15 June 1922, Page 3

HOOKWOR IN AUSTRALIA.

EXTENSIVE INVESTIGATION. [F3OM ora oww cobbsspoitdbnt.] Sydney Smut 1* Over 200,000 persons have been examined in Australia and Papua in connection! with the survey work undertaken by thaj Federal Department for Health, in conjunction with the International Health Board for the treatment of hookworm. The campaign, which was to have been, of five years' duration, was began va, 1919., ;' . . . ' It has been demonstrated that hooßwonn does not exist in Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. Western Australia, with the exception of the north-west, is also free. The disease nas been found to a limited «xtent in Queensland, on the coastal regions, and other •portions of Northern Australia, and also in the Northern Bivers district of New South Wales. The survey work naving been completed in Parma and *e* • Guinea, the efforts of the officers wJI now be devoted to controlling the disease. Of the persons examined m JNew Guinea, 74 per cent, were found to bs Sfected with hookworm, «d «nFjP£ the percentage was 59. of infected cases varied m Queensland. In some districts it wasi3 per and £ others 14. The Doctor-General for Health, Dr. Oompston, states "»*»* intended to set np a permanent organisa* tion to ensure that the present being carried out will not l» tosfc.