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...work of the Rockefeller Foundation is concerned chiefly with public health. Last year, relief centers were established in the Mississippi flood area; Brazil was aided in a fight against yellow fever; hookworm was brought under control in 19 countries; the Peking Union Medical College was supported; $2,000,000 was given toward a new medical centre for the University of London; and the globe was dotted with Rockefeller health workers...
...helped 21 governments to combat hookworm disease...
...turn rather from Christ to Abou Ben Adhem, who did not love God but rather his fellow men. For when our worship of Mammon has filled our purses to satiety we turn not to fighting the Devil, or Sin, or ourselves, but to social reform, to fighting tuberculosis or hookworm, or vice. The idea is presumably that if we try to patch up the botch Jehovah has made of keeping mankind in running order, Jehovah will repay our time and expense by deputing an angel to put us at the top of St. Peter's waiting list. We admire King...
...Hookworm. Last year the Rockefeller International Health Board aided health enterprises in 97 states and countries. Hookworm eradication is proven a simple problem of rural sanitation. (The worms abound in bewrayed soil, invade the body by way of bare feet.) The Board helped hookworm campaigns in Mexico, Central America, the Antilles, Colombia, Paraguay, Ceylon, Madras, Siam, Java, Fiji; surveyed the problem in Montserrat, Hayti, Java, Straits Settlement, Cook Island, the New Hebrides and Spain...
This week its President, George E. Vincent, preparing to print his 1925 report, briefs the Foundation's activities: 1) Hookworm-aided 18 governments, treated nearly 1,500,000 victims, erected or rebuilt thousands of latrines. 2) Rural health-aided 220 U. S. counties, 18 districts in Brazil, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria and France. 3) Yellow Fever-eliminated it through both Americas (only three cases in the year). 4) Malaria-proved that paris green prevents breeding of malaria-carrying mosquitoes. 5) Medical Education-gave money to U. S. universities or schools at Toronto, London, Copenhagen, Prague, Warsaw, Belgrade, Zagreb, Budapest, Trinidad...