A RACE-KILLING DISEASE
HAVAGE? OF HOOKWORM IN QUEENSLAND. Brisbane, April 15. Dr. Lambert, who is investigating the hookworm disease on behalf of the Koekeieiler foundation, reports that twentythree per cent, of the coastal population is infected, ami thai infection is exlraoidinnrilv iiijjh among iho aboriginals, who act as carriers for the disease. The irieetion is having a progressive deteriorating effect on forty per cent, of school children, and if left to run u few more fenerations will mean a raco of comparative imbeciles and physical degenerates, iisiead of'a dominart white race, in the \orth.—Press As.yi.
filookworm" is the.' colloquial namo for a parasitic intestinal worm, properly called ankdostoma, and the disease is anlvlostomiasis. The affection is prevalent amonc miners who work in unsanitary conditions, and is therefore often (ailed miners' anaemia. Great trouble has been experienced in England in the rest from the disease, but as the parasites thrive in an environment of dirt, and insanitary mines are those most affected, ankylostomiasis is in general controllable.! '
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 173, 16 April 1919, Page 7
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166A RACE-KILLING DISEASE Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 173, 16 April 1919, Page 7
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