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Show I FIRST BLACKHAND NOW HOOKWORM. Ogden, not to be kept out of th (Public eve, had its b'ackhand" aen- Ration, and now the hookworm has made its appearance in the community. commun-ity. Fortunatelv, the 'black-hand" j perpetrators of crime, ha.e about run ' their course, and the hookworm can be eradicated by frequent doses of thymol. Somewhat of a coincidence, both : those afflictions are importations. The L ' blackhand" methods came from Jtalv and the hookworm from southern Europe Prior to the discovery of the cause; of "laziness" among 6ome of the peo- . pie in the southern states, and the ,1: anaemic condition of manv of thp poor class, the bookworm escaped recognition Since then the mirlTJte offender against health has been ; traced almcr.r around the world, hav- j Ins been brought to this country h;. i immigrants from southern Europe. It ll ls 8 mo9t evervating affliction, tho ft worms lodging in the intestines and sapping the vitality of the , arriers 4 Miners m California have hccn I f'J,,nd to carriers of the worm j J: ' ft'so Hindoos. Chinese and others. J ' Dr Robinson, who discovered the dls- I "ase in Ogden. says that if allowed to. the larvae might spread and thus j prove a serious affliction, and that I the excrement should he treated with J the same prec2utions used in typhoid i cases. |