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Intestinal Parasite Infections among in-Patients of the Indiana University Medical Center Hospitals^*

INTRODUCTION Although numerous surveys of various types of population groups of the United States have been made, the writer found, by a survey of the available literature (Headlee, 1937), that no such surveys had been made in the state of Indiana. There were random case reports of native parasite infections, but no valid data were available concerning the incidence of these parasites among the general population of the state, or even among those individuals of particular population units of the area. Since that time a number of separate studies have been made by the writer or under his direction, with the purpose of making an accurate determination of the incidence of these infections in the general Hoosier population, and to evaluate their importance in relation to public health. These have included urban and rural inhabitants, university students, and two large groups of individuals in State Hospitals for the Insane (Headlee, 1939; Headlee, Kmecza and Cable, 1939; Kmecza, 1939; Hopp, 1940; and Headlee and Hopp, 1940).

Received November 18, 1941.
^* This work was aided by a research grant from the Indiana University Medical Center Research Committee, for which the writer wishes to express his sincere thanks. The writer is also appreciative of the laboratory facilities furnished him in the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children, and of the interest and cooperation of many of the staff members of the Indiana University Medical Center. He is particularly grateful to Doctors W. D. Gatch and C. G. Culbertson for their interest and encouragement throughout the project. This work was also supported in part by a research grant provided jointly by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Indiana Academy of Science.

Read at the 37th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine, St. Louis, Mo., 1941.