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Show HINDUS Is Causing Many of the Asiatics to Be Deported S.m Franclsc-i. Oct. is. The n-o-nt dlxoerv of hoC'kworni amonc Hindus Hin-dus arrlvln? at this pirt ami tho r-sultant r-sultant ilizld tets for that di-ea" ainonfi neu comers, . Is haln a marked effect In stemmlnc tho tide of Oriental Immigration, accordinc to the reimrls of lmuiiK'rati"n ofEclals at Arcel l-land. Tho steamship Apia, which brought 111 Hindus to San Franclsc. took K'O back to the Orient when sbo syilled, mot of which returning number having hav-ing beoa deported, It is said, beaiio they had 1-en fciund to W victims of hookworm. Of the in atrhals. 7"i (were examlnid for tho disoas'. with ihe result that Z were declared to be affected. Of Hindus broucht by the liner Mongolia, seven wore deported a hookworm victims Thirty of 40 brought by tho Ten Maru were foind to be sufferlDK from the malady I and have tw-en sent back. This makes a record of S7 hookworm hook-worm sufferers among HI cxamlnod from the last three boats, or over CO per rent. The department at Washington Is sh'iwlnc creat Interest In the work at Ancl Island, and Surgeon Ooneral Wryinan lias -ought to aid the Imestl-gatlons Imestl-gatlons of Ir. tJlover. discoverer of the malady anum? the Inee-mlng Hindus, Hin-dus, by transferring Pr. A. J Ijinza to the Island to assist in the exam- ' lnations. I Additional equipment for the tda- ; t Ion's hospital has ben asked for, with a view of extending tho Investigation Investi-gation to othor Oriental Immigrants. |