Show r SAYS HOOKWORM DISEASE HAS I t. t BEEN BROUGHT TO CALIfORNIA fROM i tN n V FRANCISCO p Nov 0 4 Tho I Tho hook- hook ii has been brought to HanY San Han orm dl disease dIaO Hawaii and tho the orient and from Y Francisco of or tJ roses CS of 0 hitherto unexplained 5 supposed lad lack of ot laziness and u attributed to MI 1 I. noW aio 1 or Of the lUll littin thi Gunn who Is 18 directing n a Herbert Physicians against tho tim dis- dis or of ut pall yesterdaY d of at hook- hook d vcr over cases treated I i haY O worm volIn In this thus elt city I T recall c at least one death ilu to It H that of or a hoy boy who died at nt tho the Line Lane hospital rho Tho o lies has not been heen known tl to c exist In California c. c except In cr very rare are Instances until four tour yuan years ngo ago A colon colony of ot laborers who were horn bout In tho the West cst Indies camo here from Crom roni Hawaii an and 15 45 vcr tier cent were wern found to bo be seriously affected Sugar r planters hud hod Imported thousands of oC laborers from the tue West Indies where hookworm runs riot among tho working classes T X f worb brought Into Hawaii but the the-Ir languor lan duo due to tho thio r ravages rags of or the worm made marie the colonization a failure find th tint tho laborers hl began an to drift in n small Email bands to this Hundreds of ot them till still lIli live 11 hero and In towns about the bay and nearly half of or them are aro endangering the public health In addition to Iu the thc Islanders man many sol soldiers sol sol- ol- ol diers from lh thin tho orle-n orle orient have o returned af- af with tho the small vampires The parasites In country districts are arc usually acquit ell ed through the thc skin of ot the thc bare hare feet 1 Infected water and uncooked t vegetable also spread tim the th disease Army rm officers and private soldiers have been known to pick up th the worm In their wet shoes while tramping tramping- through rice fields s. s |