Show i I One Million Dollars Dollar s to Combat Hookworm Disease i p F FW W o n JM IZE 7 P r r r w 4 t T I I r I I i iI I 1 44 t p i r fe r rEi r-rEi 5 1 JI r E-r-r V I W YORK In In tho bopo OPO of ball bait ing tho ravages cs of the tite deadly wadI hookworm hook form worm disease J John oin D. D Rockefeller announced through h his representatives s in jn In the office of the Stan Standard ard Oil corn com Tiny that ho he had offered one million dollars dollus to a commission of or c twelve scientists sei enlists educators and antl business men b by him to carr carry out tim tho work for this object hI ho has lias III in vie Tho fhe gift ift has been heen accepted by tho tim twelve ts-elve men under the conditions condition sut sug- ested by br Mr Ir Rockefeller and they the have o o il c-il Tho Thu Rockefeller Commission Com Coin mission for th the tho Eradication of the tho Hookworm Disease and ami have 1130 taken steps toward incorporation The rue U hookworm hook disease J known known- scientifically as m or ylo i is particularly prevalent alent in inthe inthe the south and mill it is is partly to show how his appreciation of the ho hospitality pit lity and mcl kindliness 5 which he lac has hul received Cd at the hands of if people that M Mr r. r Rockefeller A has undertaken this work For Tor or tho the same samo reason tho the commission is is composed largely of men connected with southern institutions |