Deseret Evening News | 1909-11-12 | Page 5 | Hookworm Appears Here

HOOKWORM APPEARS HERE Arkansas Thought to tu tic he Vic Victims ie tims at al An Odd Parasite Dr nl 0 O D Minor of o called up Secretary Boutty or ot the tho state board or of health Thursday Thun da evening to notify him himot of ot the th presence of Jr two cases casts of ot BUS sus hookworm at the line vic time tims being member ot of n a 1 fatally family re rc recently arrived from Arkansas wh where rv tho the tl parasite has haJI up spread read such havoc Dr VI Beatty Instructed Dr Minor to quarantine the family and anti t r In good sized dozes lions The hookworm bookworm Is III much like the or 01 pinworm In appearance but has hasa a 1 mouth provided with cut cuI cutters tore which fasten on the mucus mem brunt brano lining of the intestines and draw Mood blood Ir od Tho The first stages stager of ot the tho affliction are art characterized by b In Inertia ertia ertla followed by a general physical demoralization later lalor Magazine articles ar articles have been written about It Ib and much of ot the so called laziness haziness of the tho working clauses classes in ho tho the south Is now at al attributed to tho the hookworm John D Rockefeller has hu given a million dollars to fight the tine destroying Ia Ill III Ie Morning paper accounts or of the BUll sus suspected h ted case cae CIl e credited It to 10 Lehl Lehi but hut in inquiry at that point and and at dill die abuses the Ih tact fact that t there thero I le Ie no Ito such ruse raw r oven oen at i hl but bul that It is IR a ti ease retorted from Nei il by Dr Minor