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CAS.ES AT NEWCASTLE. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received October 6, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, sth October. Twenty-five cases of beriberi were treated at Newcastle during September. Beriberi is a disease endemic in certain latitudes, and liable to epidemic diffusion. It occurs in Japan, Korea, on the Chinese coast, in Singapore, the Straits of Malacca, Java and neighbouring islands, Ceylon, Madagascar, Cuba, and over a wide area of South America. Its symptoms are languor, depression, numbness, stiffness, cramps in the legs, gradually getting worse until sometimes the patient succumbs. Recovery is slow, and change of locality is the most effective treatment. It usually attacks persons between the ages *of 15 and 40; children and persons of more mature age rarely suffer from it. The disease has been known to the Chinese from a very remote period.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 84, 6 October 1909, Page 7
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