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Show HOOKWORM LAYS HOLDJF GUAM i j SEATTLE, Doc. 2 Among tho i passengers on thg steamship Mlnne- sota, which arrived from the Orient today, was Captain E. J. Dorn. U. S. N., letlring governor of Guam, who reports the prevalence of the hookworm hook-worm in the island. This disease, with leprosy and gnazoga, affords a large field of work for the American surgeons. "Investigation recently disclosed that every pupil of a large school maintained by government Is afflicted with hookworm, said Captain Dorn." Thirty leeers are Isolated at the government gov-ernment colony on the- Island and severe afreets are resulting from a native trouble knwn as gnazoga The lutter malady resembles leprosy and is wide spread among the natives." Captain Dorn, upon retiring, turned the station over to Liuttenant F. B. Frecier as commandant and governor Lieutenant Frecier is to be succeeded as permanent governor by Lluetenant Commander Galbraoth, IT S X. |