RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

INTERNATIONAL HEALTH DIVISION 43
Division of The Rockefeller Foundation. The
program covers the period from October 1, 1935,
to March 31, 1937. By the end of 1935, 103
schools, seventy-eight of them white and twentyfive
Negro, had been surveyed in sixteen counties
in eastern North Carolina. Almost 10,000 specimens
had been obtained from the 103 schools,
and the survey was well under way.
The work in Egypt concerns a continued demonstration
in the control of soil pollution. As is
well known, the only effective way of preventing
hookworm disease is to prevent soil pollution by
human excreta. This involves the provision of
sanitary latrines and an educational campaign
to inculcate their use. In Egypt an effort is being
made to sanitate three villages in each of the
fourteen provinces and three governates of the
country. If the present rate of progress can be
continued, the program will be completed by the
end of 1936. In Egypt a change in the habits of
the people living in villages in rural areas is
already noticeable. Practical sanitation is being
achieved.
During 1935 there was also completed a' helminthological
survey of Egypt, in which at least
40,000 representative individuals were investigated
through a microscopic examination of over
150,000 slides containing stool specimens. Originally
this study was planned as an attempt solely
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