PELLAGRA.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17207, 26 July 1921, Page 7

PELLAGRA.

DISEASE EOTS IN SOUTHERN , ' TJT.S.A. '(Bw Cable—Pm« Association—Copyright) (iWiriiaa ana N.Z. Cable .Association.) (Reoeived.July 2oth, &.20 p.m.) 'NEW YORK, July 24. The Washington correspodent of the ,'tyew York, Times" reports a state- - nWnfc by the Public Health Service that pellagra will claim approximately 1 100,000. persons in the cotton belt States, and it is expected that 10 per cent, of this number will die. 'The tenant farmers, who have devoted the greater part of their land to cotton culture, hare been unable to sell their, crops, and have, therefore, been living,on £alt pork, corn meal,' and i ' jnolasses, which is a semi-starvation ' * diet, Because it is not varied. The Vf "trowing'of a diversity of crops has, * , s .from time immemorial, been the f\ \ SoUtJi's problem, and is cbt yet solved'. ?..' '. \\"l f t! inte sSiril is a peculiar disease of com-" &3 -paratively modern origin. For some tfc sin>e'it was supposed to be practically f>rp confined to the'peasantry in Italy, f||V 'France, Sjtain, and Roumania- But it sgp< Latf-abo been identified in various parts WM? sj|p; H 'Cnifed Stamps sporadic cases had been mkb observed-up %o 1806, but since then !j cases 'have been reported. l It ly, however, that it has beep valent.' The malady is essenonio ha character. A red rash on' the skin, and the victim; It for Work and suffers from and giddiness. The,succes-i &s each .year become more and' ere, and after a certain stage' se-passea into a profound disjou of th© nervous system, pellagra- varies inversely with k_ income in the cotton-mill tf, South-Carolina is the con* rawPiftfter a three-year study Jolted . Public Health lV ;>This is, the. first .reported which the long-suspected relaMW^rty (l and pellagra is deaeasured. As the income fell ae found to increase, and morerand more other members line family, As the income disease decreased, and was trad .in f families that enjoyed est'incomes, even though this r*a still ajiite, low.' Differences the same incomes ibtttafl hy the' report to'differ. the,expenditures fpr food, in».of the housewife,"and owner. >WB, gardens, etc. Differences | Uages which Were economically ere attributed to differences in lability «nd condition of food arketsVA recent 1 statement by i largest ; life insurance i 'the United* States indicated food ,*tandatd of Southern" irag*earners' i must have hpWwioerably'of 'late, for the to-front;, nfllagra had fallen tier 100,000 in 1913 to 2.3 in