Preliminary report of the Commission for the Suppression of Anemia in Porto Rico / authorized by act of the Legislative Assembly, approved March 8, 1905, to continue the work of the Commission for the Study and Treatment of Anemia in Porto Rico.

  • Puerto Rico. Commission for the Study and Treatment of Anaemia.
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[1906]
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Credit: Preliminary report of the Commission for the Suppression of Anemia in Porto Rico / authorized by act of the Legislative Assembly, approved March 8, 1905, to continue the work of the Commission for the Study and Treatment of Anemia in Porto Rico. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SUMMARY OF TABLE 5. SHOWING THE RELATION BETWEEN THE COLOR OF ALL PATIENTS TREATED AND THE RELATIVE NUMBER OF UNCINARIA OVA FOUND IN THEIR STOOLS ON MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION. Relative number ova uncinaria White Mulatto Negro Not recorded Total Great many 330 60 13 403 Many 4,330 958 142 5,4.30 Moderate 5,665 1,355 360 7,.380 Few 2,696 873 153 3,722 Very few 198 43 5 246 Unclassified 173 173 Total. .. . 13,219 3,289 673 173 17.354 Plus substation, Barranquitas (no microscoiie) 1,425 Moca “ i fc 86 Grand Total 18,865 18,865 From the summary of Table 4 we see that 78-(-^ of 18,865 patients were white, 28were miilattoes and only were negroes. Of the total number of 14,560 whites treated, excluding those in which the type of the disease was not stated, 71-j-^ were medium, intense, or very intense cases, while only 41of the 670 negro patients fall in thisclassili cation. On the other hand, from the summary of Table 5 we timl that the white patients in whom a moderate, large or very large number of eggs of imcinaria were observed in the stools, form 78-j-^ of the 13,219 whites treated, and that 76of the 673 negro patients fall in this classitication. In other words, the negro is just as heavily infected, just as dangerous to the community in which he lives, as the white man, but he possesses a re- lative immunity to the effects of the parasite. The ages of our patients are graphically portrayed in the following summaries of Tables 6 and 7.