Ogden Daily Standard | 1909-11-13 | Page 2 | Dread Hookworm Appears in Nephi

I I DREAD bREAD HOOKWORM APPEARS IN NEPHI Salt Lake Nov O 0 D Miner of has reported the tho existence of two cases In which the correspond Identically wIth Ith those hose ot of the tho dread hookworm disease or of th the The children afflicted aro members of a family recently emigrating ing from the Ule center of oC tile the disease In the south The children have attended the public schools of Nephi and have associated with neigh neighbors neighbors bors As tile the disease is highly infectious steps will bo be taken lately to ascertain or of the di disease ease Is the tho genuine In which case the family will be iso kited and steps taken to curo the two suffering from the disease Dr Miner was ordered to submit specimens of tile the dIsease to Dr F A of the state university and state bacteriOlogist who will pass final Much has Ims been called to the hookworm recently b magazine writers some of whom h has s gone so far as to attribute tim the general leth lethargy lethargy argy amon among the lower classes o of the south to tills this disease It is said that Its chief effect Is to caUSe Inertia or laziness in the tho victim John JohnD D recently donated 1 to be used as a fund to extol extor minate the disease which was placed iii the hands of twelve prominent scientists and educators in tile the south and form a big lIlg factor In the th fight which the south is about to begin against the hookworm I II