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tion of children in the schools and students in the colleges, 

 by examinations made at the State laboratories, by the cele- 

 bration of public-health day; and most effective of all has 

 been the teaching of the people by demonstration through 

 the treatment of large numbers at the county dispensaries. 

 ... At times the clinics are small when the dispensaries are 

 new or in communities where the infection is light; but~in 

 communities where the infection is heavy and after the dis- 

 pensary has had a few days within which to demonstrate its 

 effectiveness, the people come in throngs; they come by boat, 

 by train, by private conveyance for 20 and 30 miles. Our 



A HOOKWORM DISPENSARY IN KENTUCKY 



The people travel for miles to obtain treatment. 



Courtesy of the Rockefeller Foundation. 



records contain stories of men, women, and children walking 

 in over country roads 10 and 12 miles, the more anemic at 

 times falling by the way, to be picked up and brought in by 

 neighbors passing with wagons. As many as 455 people have 

 been treated at one place in one day. Such a dispensary 

 group* will contain men, women, and children from town and 

 country, representing all degrees of infection and all sta- 

 tions in life. A friend who had just visited some of the dis- 

 pensaries said to me recently: 'It looks like the days of 

 Galilee/ 



"The people usually begin to arrive early. I visited one 

 dispensary at 8 o'clock in the morning and found 43 per- 

 sons there waiting for attention. They linger; they gather 



