GOITRE INCREASING
PREVALENCE IN NEW ZEALAND. CONDITIONS OF MODERN LIFE. (United Press Association—Copyright). MELBOURNE, Sept. 13. Speakers at the medical and surgical sections of the British Medical Association congress to-day expressed the opinion that goitre; was most common in New Zealand. Sir Thomas Dunhill, the world’s most eminent authority on the thyroid gland, said the disease was increasing all over the world. Its primary cause was still unknown. Some patients could not be made safe for surgery. The sooner the word cure was dropped in this disease the better. The discussion that followed revealed that the hustle and bustle of mo»ern life was a stimulus to the spread of the disease.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 285, 14 September 1935, Page 5
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