Show I MILliON TO AID IN WORK John JohnD D Rockefeller Interested in the Fight Again Hook cHook Hookworm Hookworm worm l Disease Prevalent in the Southern States I SCIENTISTS PRESSED INTO ACTIVE SERVICE Hookworm H a HairLike Para Parasite Parasite Parasite site Which Finds Its Abode in the Intestines and Pons Its Victims of Energy ONLY LATELY DISCOVERED New Nw York Oct 28 A gift of one mil mu million million lion dollars by John D Rockefeller to fight the hookworm disease was waa an announced announced at the office of the he Standard pU company here bare late today A dozen well known educators and scientists scientists sd selected in a large larg part from In Institutions Institutions In the south where the para parasite parasite parasite site Is prevalent were called in confer conference conference conference ence with Mr Rockefellers representatives tives at the Standard Oil of offices flees ices last Tuesday and ut at that meeting Mr Rockefellers desire to organize a Commission to carry carryon on a campaign against the malady was discussed As a result the Rockefeller commission for the eradication of the hookworm disease was waa organized Members of Commission The members of the commission as se selected selected Selected by Mr Rockefeller include Dr I William Wililam H Welch Yelch professor of pathology pathology ogy Ob in Johns Hopkins university Dr Si Simon SImon SImon mon Flexner president of the American Medical association Dr Charles W Stiles Stile chief of the division of zoology United States public health and marine hospital service and discoverer of Amer American American Amerlean ican lean species of hookworm and the preva prevalence prevalence lence hence of the disease in America and Mr Starr J Murphy Mr Rockefellers coun counsel sel sal and John D Rockefeller Jr In calling these men together Tuesday Mr Rockefeller addressed to each a let letten letten letten ten pointing out his Interest The members of the commission in framing a reply to Mr Ir Rockefellers offer of declared that the proposition met with their heartiest approbation Millions of Sufferers Two millions of our people are In Infected Infected Infected i with this parasite they added It is by no means confined to one ono class classi it i takes its toll of suffering and death from the Intelligent and as well as from the less fortunate The Tha hookworm according to New NewYork NewYork NewYork York medical authorities is a hairlike parasite to h is charged a form of anemia prevalent especially among the poor floor people of the south v vIn In December 1902 Dr w ra Stiles then a zoologist from the bureau of animal Industry at Washington who had haIl been studying g Intestinal pa nj n Sanitary congress his conviction that the laziness widely WIdey b served in certain portions of the south was vas a specific disease due to the hook hookworm hookworm hookworm worm |