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Wacissa, Jefferson County, 1902 1 case, 0 death. 
Stiles (1903b, p. 42): Orphan in Macon, Ga. 
Ocala, Marion County, 1902 5 cases, 0 death. 
Stiles f 1903b, p. 44). 
Twiggs County, 1902 ? cases, ( deaths. 
I have been informed that in Twiggs County there exists a condition which cor- 
responds to uncinariasis. 
Upson County ? cases, ? deaths. 
There is said to exist a great deal of “bloat” in this county. Possibly this “bloat ” 
is due, in part at least, to uncinariasis. 
Waldo, Alachua County, 1902 about 12 cases, 0 death. 
Stiles (1903b, p. 44). 
ALABAMA. 
? Locality ? cases, ? deaths. 
Lyell, quoted by Blaxchaed, 1888a. Could not be traced. 
Middle Alabama, 1902 __1 case, 0 death. 
Haeris (1902c, p. 776). 
Mobile and vicinity 2T cases, 0 death. 
The following extracts are made from a letter dated .March 3, 1903, from Dr. E. D. 
Boxduraxt, professor of pathology, medical department. University of Alabama: 
‘ ‘ Some weeks ago a fellow practitioner told of cases of intense and protracted anemia 
he was treating, suggested the possibility of uncinariasic, and asked me to make a 
microscopic examination of the fecal discharges. This was done, and I had no 
difficulty in promptly identifying the hookworm ova in the feces of every one of his 
4 cases. Shortly afterward I came upon 2 cases in my own practice, found the ova in 
quantity, and after thymol I found numbers of adult worms. At the city hospital 
we have already had several [?3] others, and one physician who has actively taken 
up the search in his anemic country patients tells me that he has found about 15 
cases. There is no doubt that the disease is very common in the country surround- 
ing Mobile. * * * Our ‘poor whites’ are surely widely infected with the 
disorder * * * .” 
In a letter dated March 13, Dr. E. D. Bondurant says: “ I have, since 1 last wrote 
you, diagnosed cases from Monroe County, Covington County, and Crenshaw County, 
this State, as well as numerous other cases in the district immediately around 
Mobile. * * * All of my cases have promptly improved after thymol.” 
Monroe County, 1903 1 case, 0 death. 
Quoted on the authority of a letter dated March 3, 1903, from Dr. E. D. Box- 
duraxt. 
Waldo, Talladega County ? cases, ? deaths. 
A trained nurse. Miss Edith Lide, has described to me a family at Waldo whose 
symptoms (anemia, heart, emaciation, dirt-eating, etc.) point almost unmistakably 
to hookworm disease. 
MISSISSIPPI. 
One of the American physicians (Dr. Kirby-Smith) who saw several 
cases of uncinariasis in Cuba has recently stated to me that this disease 
is undoubtedh" present in Mississippi, but its exact nature has not been 
recognized. He is convinced that he himself has seen a number of 
cases which were confused with maD.rffi. 
