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...Alabama Journal: In the next 20 years, I think the South is going to become scarcely distinguishable from any other part of the country. We're surrendering a lot of traditions, but I'm not sure that they're worth a lot. Who wants hookworm and pellagra...
...despair that blankets half the world's inhabitants. An estimated 1 billion of them suffer in some degree from malnutrition; perhaps half a million die of starvation annually. Lacking sanitary water as well as insecticides and disinfectants, tens of millions are struck down with debilitating disease-malaria, typhoid, hookworm, dysentery, cholera...
Death Rate. The health dividends from the federal investment were even greater. Delta blacks had long been plagued by many poverty-related ailments, from iron-deficiency anemia to parasitic infections like hookworm. The hospital alone could not significantly reduce the incidence of these ailments, but it did help those who came to it. Although the death rate for babies born in the region is more than 35 per 1,000 live births (among the nation's highest), there were only five deaths among the 1,047 babies born last year at Mound Bayou's community hospital...
While the other medics usually remain in the health center assisting Reavell and the clinic's one county-supplied nurse, Black roams the back country roads as a "point man," watching for telltale signs of sickness, lecturing families on how to guard against hookworm, which afflicts some 30% of Hoke's children, and distributing health pamphlets. "I am a rat, I am your enemy, I carry germs that make people sick," begins one. There are others on prenatal care, family planning and hygiene...
...from 1936 to 1948, a founder of the World Health Organization, and leader of the long campaign against venereal disease; of pneumonia; in Pittsburgh. Few have done more to bring modern medicine to the nation's poor than this gentlemanly physician; he fought typhoid and hookworm in South Carolina, smallpox in Colorado, tuberculosis in New York slums. In the struggle against venereal disease, he distributed educational pamphlets across the U.S., campaigned for widespread syphilis tests, and relentlessly tracked the sources of infection to such effect that the number of new syphilis cases dropped from...