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Show HOOKWORM IN pilS Will Result in Shutting the Orientals Out of This Country San Francisco, Sept. 29. A discovery discov-ery that may prove far-reaching lu Its effect on Oriental Immigration lu-to lu-to this country has been made. It Ia announced today, by Dr. M. W. Glover of the Angel Island Immigrant jta-lion jta-lion here. His discovery Is that thij Hindu Is a victim of the hookworm disuse. Of seventeen Hindus now being held at tbo hospital on the Island, all but live, it 's stated, have been found to be suffering from the peculiar malady. It" Is further announced that the Chinese Chi-nese immigrants, the only ones of i that race to be examined, have been j brown bi be afflicted with hookworm. A federal statute debars aliens af-flicted af-flicted with dangerous contagions dls-1 eases from landing In this country. ' Thai bookworm falls under this clas- j siflcation Is the contention advanced ' here by those who profess to see In Dr. Glover's discovery the checking of further Hindu and perhaps other Oriental immigration Into the United States. I The secret of the discovoiy. which was made after extensive laboratory te.ts on Angel Island, has been care- fully guarded by Dt. Glover and his assistants, who have been engaged In , the work of analysis for the last four weeks. I For th" last few months Hindus J have boon entering this rort at the ; rate of over three hundred a month. 1 Considerable agitation against the Hindu Invasion has been In evidence t of late throughout the Pacific coast stales. ' I |