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Title: Uncinariasis (Hookworm disease) in Porto Rico : a medical and economic problem
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Ashford, Bailey K. (Bailey Kelly), 1873-1934 Gutiérrez Igaravidez, Pedro Puerto Rico. Anemia Commission
Subjects: Anemia Hookworm disease Medical statistics Hookworm Infections
Publisher: Washington : Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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of the work of the station without thetediousness of a daily record with its unimportant variations. The tent hospital of GO beds was ready for occupancy by June 15.In it were placed patients suffering from severe grades of the disease,and some who, though not gravely ill, had come distances too greatfor them to return at intervals for the medicine. The hospital alsoafforded an opportunity to keep under observation cases presentingspecial symptoms or complications, and those on whom special investi-gations were being made, as the series of cases used to observe theeffects of the anthelmintic drugs. From June 15 to November 30205 patients were admitted for varying lengths of time, aggregating7,137 days of hospital treatment. As soon as the central station at Aibonito could be thoroughlyorganized and put in good running order we turned our attention tothe establishment of substations at several towns which had requestedour aid. The first was opened July 15, at Lares, under the charge of
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