INCIDENCE OF GOITRE
(P.A.) DUNEDIN, Friday. The urgent nutritional problem presented in the Dominion by goitre was the subject of an address last night by Dr. C. E. Hercus, Dean of the Medical School. He stated that both the simple and toxic goitre were still widespread, and the incidence of the simple type among children was a stern reminder of failure to apply existing knowledge to the people's nutritional needs. It was a simple matter to supply the iodine deficiency in domestic salt, when the simple goitre would disappear in a generation. He emphasised, however, that that prophylaxis would be ineffective unless iodised salt were used, both for cooking and the table. In the meantime the cause of toxic goitre, which was the outstanding problem, in thyroid pathology, remained unknown, but the main fact was that a reduction in the incidence of simple goitre would autmomatically reduce the incidence of toxic goitre.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 252, 23 October 1943, Page 6
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