Hookworm Disease among Labourers in the Tea Gardens of the Duars
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Sir,?I bog to send you notes oil ankylostomiasis and the conclusions 1 have arrived at after two years of close study of the disease on a te i garden in the Duars, and which you may care to insert in your Valuable paper. (1) That over 80 per cent, of the coolies employed in the tea garden are fnfected with hookworm. A larger percentage even than that are female yvorkors. (2) The general health condition and working capacity of the tea garden labourers are being undermined by hookworm infection ; and although the garden shows a fairly good number of coolies on the roll books, not more than
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