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Show FILIPINOS HAVE THE HOOK-WORM t . HONOLULU. Jan, 2. Stating that tho last importation of 121 Flllponos as laborers for tho sugar plantations, .ire afflicted with hook-worm and other oth-er contagious dlseaBes, passed Assistant Assist-ant Surgeon Carl Ramus of tho U S Marino hospital service, assistant health officer of tho Hawaiian lBlands, cabled to Surgeon Goneral Wyman today to-day aakod If the latlor cannot In soma way arrange for their deportation Under the existing lawa, tho Immlgru tlon servlco here Is powerloss to pro- vent the landing of emigrants from tho Philippines howovcr dlseaHed they may be. Agitation Is becoming strong here against tho nugar planters and tbolr ngents, to Btop them from further fur-ther efforts to Import Filipino labor-era. labor-era. Among the 121 latest arrivals, tho federal health officer) found 113 case9 of contagious dlacejaey, many of them dcBcribod as "filthy " Tho publlo Ib considerably workod up about tho matter In vlow of tho ro-port ro-port that more FillpinoB are coining. |