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Show FIGHT HOOKWORM IN BRAZIL American Physicians Given Free Hand for Campaign In the Interior of Republic Rio do Janeiro. Through tho efforts of Dr. Charles Seldle, director of tho public health department, and Drs. Lewis Wendell Uackett and George Stono of the Rockefeller foundation, the government has given tho American Ameri-can Institution free hand to wage a campaign on the hookworm In the ln terlor of Brazil. kW The percentage of inhabitants of tho outlying districts afflicted with this dls ease Is high, according to health department de-partment ofllcinls. Creditable work has nlready been done by the American physicians and It Is believed the proposed campaign will be of Inestimable value In the stimulation of agricultural enterprise. |