ARTESIAN WATER
INCIDENCE OF GOITRE OPINION OF MEDICAL MEN Palmerston North, May 2. A meeting of the Palmerston North branch of the British Medical Association discussed the question of artesian water as a cause of goitre, at a meeting last night. The opinion of the meeting was that the incidence of simple goitre in the district would not be increased by the supplementing of the present water supplv, with artesian water. Trhe president, Dr. W. Hunter XV lie, said: “The recognised authority upon the causation of goitre. Lieut.-Colonel McCarrison, 1.M.5., at the International Conference on Goitre, held under the auspices of the Swiss Goitre Commission at Berne in August, 1927, stated: “The prevention of the disease and its sequel rests on: (1) The perfecting of sanitation; (2) protected water .supplies; (3) efficient personal hygiene and drainage of the gas-tro-intestinal tract; (4) the use of a well-balanced food containing a sufficiency of iodine in a natural state.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 185, 3 May 1929, Page 6
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156ARTESIAN WATER Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 185, 3 May 1929, Page 6
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