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Title: Popular science monthly
Year: 1913 (1910s)
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Subjects: Technology Science
Publisher: New York : McClure, Phillips and Co.
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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Italiax. Italians. lation, showed 8,940 or 22.7 percent, to have trachoma. At thisrate there are 72,000 trachomatousIndians in the United States. In 1911 Surgeon M. H. Fos-ter, of the U. S. Public HealthService, made a survey of condi-tions of health and sanitationamong the natives of Alaska. Of1,364 Alaskan Indians examinedover 7 per cent, suffered fromtrachoma, and nearly 3 per cent,were blind largely as a result oftrachoma. The disease rankedwith syphilis and tuberculosis asone of the most destructive to•which the natives are subject.Recently Surgeon John McMullen,of the Public Health Service, hasconducted a careful investigationas to the prevalence and serious-ness of trachoma among1 the IMMIGRATION AND THE PUBLIC HEALTH 323 mountaineers of Kentucky. Of about 4,000 persons examined, 500 or124 per cent, had trachoma. From 3 per cent, to 18 per cent, of theschool children examined suffered from trachoma. At the semi-annualclinic held by Dr. J. A. Stucky at Hindman. Kentucky, in Se

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