RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

40 ' THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
Hookworm and Schistosoiniasis
In former years The Rockefeller Foundation
engaged extensively in work connected with the
investigation and control of hookworm disease.
This work was carried on in many countries in
the tropical and semitropical belt encircling the
world. Many cases were cured; numerous control
campaigns involving preventive sanitation work
were instituted; and, gradually, work against
hookworm disease was incorporated in most
countries as part of the regular routine of the
health departments. At present the only regions
in which the Foundation is still actively supporting
hookworm work are North Carolina and
Egypt.
During the years 1910 to 1915 the Rockefeller
Sanitary Commission and,
later, the International
Health Commission of The Rockefeller
Foundation conducted a hookworm control program
in North Carolina which aided materially
in checking this disease. With the development
of county health units, in North Carolina and
elsewhere, hookworm disease control was incorporated
as a part of the local health program.
In 1935 a survey was inaugurated to determine
the present status of hookworm disease in North
Carolina. This survey is supported jointly by the
North Carolina State Board of Health, Vanderbilt
University, and the International Health
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