Show AMERICAN DOCTO RATE HATE SAX SAN FRANCISCO CISCO Nov XO 23 th Dr Dr George M. M Converse ConveNe of ot tho the United States public health service has returned to San Fran- Fran deco co after almost three years yearn carH spent In inthe tho the Isolated city of or Peru whither ho went at tho al-tho the request of or the Peruvian government to this country to try to ascertain ascertain ascer ascer- tam tain why the inhabitants of ot Iquitos were I dying at nt the rato rate of fifty per 1000 per annum and aDd why virtually the tho entire population population pop pop- was always ns t either sick or ailing Dr Converse Journeyed 2300 lOO miles up the Amazon Amaon to to I reach IQ Yellow fever tc and hookworm hook were the diseases es ea causing causing- the most trouble At least 90 50 per cent of the fI people ople suffering from hookworm said Dr Converse today Ho lIe found th the city cr very dirty DOt anti and at once instituted a cleaning up iii There was no hospital or facilities of an any kind afforded by tho the municipality municipality mu mu- and the Americans American's work was QI con considerably handicapped But bo ho left Dr Converse had succeeded In Ie reducIng reducing ing the time death nth late Jato to 1 1 per pcr 1000 and arid ho lie had established a L wen welt equipped clinic which ho says fays will at the end of ot ten years have havo succeeded u ec M In saving ln tho the of or the aC afflicted lives 3 of about hints Hookworm Infection he said raid makes M the th people earth eatery eaters Cia Clay candles and even the bricks of their houses are arc as a consequence of the peculiar appetite engendered by the time dl disease |