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Orthodox Greek Catholic 

 Armenian Clergyman. 



East Indians through that port. 

 The Rockefeller Commission esti- 



mated the rate of infection in 

 India at from 60 to 80 per cent, 

 of the population, and at San 

 Francisco in 1911 65.6 per cent. 

 of the Hindus were found in- 

 fected. No immigrant should be 

 admitted who is infected with 

 hookworm. He should be treated 

 until cured in an 

 hospital or excluded at once 



immigrant 



Hebrew from Galicia. 



Armenian. 



These few diseases are selected 

 merely as types to show the seri- 

 ous nature of the importation of 

 actual diseases by immigrants. 

 The list is far from exhausted 

 by the instances we have dis- 

 cussed. 



