Show There js if aW t tenaciously n io s sy y held tl theory tha V tM feast hasa B a greater resistance resistance re- re re re- e to tb nv m Uhan h han the th white whiteman white man Recent Recen it lr thins thins' by public pubic 1 health service 1 throw thrOw w d doubt on n this belief rt 11 A r rk II k In Alabam t i g a a year three r period e. e iq t the fi numbe P o oL deaths from TW f j malaria was on one and and on one half half times as s gr great t am amb Ne persons as among white In Mississippi Mis ir in 1913 13 23 times imes as many negroes s 's as as whites died of this group group pf of diseases i a s. s Several S th thousand u add blood examinations were made to t test st the the prevalence of malarial a aia ia infection hI in inthe ih the gen general r p population p In Arkansas less than six per cent ent of the the- wh whites tes examined d had the malarial organism n Sn in t their ie r bl blood od while 76 per c cent cEm nt of of f t the e negroes gro s were so s afflicted In North t Carolina Carolin the germ germ- was found round in 75 per cent of the the wh whites t s and ard Jl 11 Iter per percent cent of of the the c colored lor d persons s 5 examined xa Ii In spite of these statistics the thet old opinion may Inay may be corre correct t The The i ti gation is is still too incomplete te 1 v irant i- i ra rant t ta any a y sweeping nM Malaria Ma- Ma M laria lana is a rural disease d ai nd the is a country dw dweller ller His His' environment ie t i is ls ag against him in In other r wa sSt e bulk pC of the pop population lation in the h healthy health uplands of Mississippi Js is white ite but buthe the he n negro g o clusters clusters so so thickly i in the tl fertile but malarial cotton lands of the Yazoo Yazoo delta and and other other parts parts' parts parts' o of the tIle black l' l b belt It that that the the census of of the the state shows colored persons to only I The q question c can b be s settled o only y byan bran by br byan an exhaustive c comparison n pa is n of whit whites whitesand and b blacks Hying in t the s same environ environment m ment nt under the same condi conditions ons There Thereisa is a strong t ong pro probability 1 at such sucha u l la a a. test would support the tile old t IJ hat the negro resists malaria better than the white whit man man |