Deseret Evening News | 1905-03-21 | Page 2 | A Hospital Clinic in Porto Rico

A HOSPITAL CLINIC IN PORTO RICO The picture hows a 1 for out patients which lal been established at Utuado Porto Rico nico for tor the treatment of ot the disrate known as ni or hookworm The report of ot a recently submitted to Win calls attention to the necessity nee ef ot adopting prompt measures to cluck chck the scourge which has been Illen killing many thousands of natives In the last taw few months At tho present nt time moro more than 80 per o nt of ot nil tha deaths occurring In the Island are uro due to hookworm H I Is on an Infectious and ad one Ole attack does not nt mean Immunity from subsequent sUh quent exposures It I teems to be a lever fever of ot low typo accompanied acc by marked and has thus thul far tr proved remarkably fatal tatal spread the surroundings and nt lack of ot medical facilities have done cone much to