HOOKWORM DISEASE
CAMPAIGN IN AUSTRALIA. ' SYDNEY, May 10. The Health and Education Departments of New South. Wales, in concert with the Commonwealth Government, are now waging fresh war on hookworm, which, as the suffers from it are onlv too well aware, is causing a, great deal of misery and debility in the human race.
In Australia, the disease appears to he confined to the warmer areas, and especially the coastal belt where the rainfall is unusually heavy. This includes a large portion of the coastal region of Queensland, and from Tweed Heads down to Kenipsey, in New South Wales. In the initial investigation some years ago it was found that six per cent of wliitc children in that area had been affected. A survey of the disesae, about 1924-25. showed a decrease in its incidence of slightly more than two per cent, but recent surveys have shown no further decrease. This seems to suggest that the work of prevention, after the initial progress, has come to a standstill. The large majority of cases occur in young people, in what is called the barc-foot age, from six years onwards.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 May 1928, Page 4
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188HOOKWORM DISEASE Hokitika Guardian, 24 May 1928, Page 4
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