p. 768 | The Extent of Hookworm Infection

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 7, 1915

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 42, No. 48.

The Extent of Hookworm Infection

THE Rockefeller Foundation has discovered that in whole or in part, that zone of the world included between 36 degrees north and 30 degrees south is infected by hookworm. Fifty per cent of the laboring classes in Egypt are found to be infected; in Ceylon, as high as ninety per cent; and of about half a million of our own Southern children who were examined, thirty-nine per cent were found to be infected.