| Show GIVES MilliON DOLLARS Money to bo ho Used to Fight What Is Known as the Hook Hookworm Hookworm Hookworm worm Disease A COMMISSION ORGANIZED hu und and lulu and ni Largely I Ine Une to tn N Nw New w York Oct let 3 18 A gift Itt of on one minion II lion dollars b by John I IJ D Rockefeller lIer so tight the tho ill ca j was nt at the tho office of ot the tho Stan lard Oil hero late lato today A dozen educator end nd selected in largo part from i In tho south where the 1 l Is lit prevalent were called In conference with Mr air re rc at the tho Standard Oil office last Tuesday Tue day and at that meeting Mr do doe sire ire to o organize a commission to 10 carry on ou n a 1 against the Ih malady wee yva discussed I As Ae a result tho iho Rocks norl teller for tor the eradication of the tho hookworm disease was as or gan lied liedThe selected The member of the committee on All by e Ur Ir William II H Welch elch professor of pathology 1 m In Johns Juhu o Hopkin Illy lt Dr Simon oxner president pre I lent of or the ine American Medical association Dr Charles AV W Y Stiles chief of division of zoology United States Stales Slat public health and marine marin hospital service and of the American species of hookworm and the prevalence of ot th Ih tha ll easo In America and anI Mr Starr J jjr Mr coun Counsel el and John D Rockefeller r Jr In calling callin these thle men together Tues LU du 1111 Hy Rockefeller addre addrEl addressed H II d to 10 each cah fh a letter out Ills his hi Interest The of the committee com mitt in training a II reply tp Mr Rockefellers offer of or declared time that tho the proposition met mot with their heartiest approbation Two TRo millions million of lit our people are arl in reeled with this lt they the added It 11 Is ie by no means mean confined to one r elase la U it takes take tie ton toll ot of suffering and death from rune the tho Intelligent and well tj to to do aB as a well as os from the thc leas lew le 1 fortunate vJ The i hookworm ae n to New York medical authorities U to It a n hair like to which is 10 charged a II form forni of ot anemia prevalent especially e m among th tits poor people o or er tie its I Guth 01 I In Iii 1002 Ur Dr doll dell Stilt Stile then a zoologist I r m mil the bureau burau of animal lr at 01 ton toll who ho had been 1 It II declared ills his conviction that the th laziness and shirt widely observed o rec tn In clr certain certain tain portions of ot the hn t south lion h was 11 a specific disease due to 10 time the hookworm M My h child was as burned t terribly about bout the Ih fat fare e neck and rh chest l I t applied lir Ur Oil The twin Latin und and the th child hiM seek lIk Into a It r rest t te p Mrs M tor Hamburg N Y |
