HOOKWORM INFECTION RATES IN ELEVEN SOUTHERN STATES

17 May 1924

journal article
research article
Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA

Vol. 82 (20) , 1601-1602
https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1924.02650460025011

Abstract

During the years 1910-1915, hookworm campaigns were conducted by state boards of health in eleven Southern states.¹It was early recognized that the highest infection rate was found among rural school children between 6 and 18 years of age, and consequently special figures were collected for these ages in 422 counties. The infection rates in these original (1910-1915) campaigns were based on microscopic examinations of fecal specimens by the plain smear method from a minimum of 200 rural school children in each county. In order to determine the rates of infection after a period of years, eighty-one of the 422 counties have been resurveyed during the years 1920-1923, the same microscopic technic being used as in the original surveys. More accurate methods of microscopic examination have been developed since the first surveys were made, but for the sake of comparison the plain smear method has been employed in all

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