The Rural Life Problem of the United States Notes of An Irish Observer
The Rural Life Problem of the United States Notes of An Irish Observer
Horace Curzon Plunkett
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The effect of the disease set up by the hookworm, which infests the intestines, is a complete sapping of all energy, mental and physical. Mr. Rockefeller has provided a million dollars for the necessary research work and for such subsequent organisation of sanitary effort as may be required to extirpate this un- questionably preventable evil. I wonder how long such a state of affairs would have been permitted to interfere with the health and to paralyse the industry of urban com- The Inner Life... of the American Farmer 79 munities. Had the hookworm, instead of lurking in country lanes, walked the streets, how would it have fared? These two pests furnish a fine illustration of the length to which the neglect of rural life has been allowed to go in the Southern States. Neither the Eastern nor the Far West- ern section presents aspects of special inter- est to the foreign student of the Rural problem in the United States, but in both the constructive statesman and the social worker will find a rich field for their efforts.
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