A REPORT DENIED
PELLAGRA IN COTTON STATES. "T " OF U.S.A.
(UMt!» FRISS ASSOCIATIOS.—CMMHM.)
(Australian - new zSalaUb cmc as6ociati«n.) WASHINGTON, 6th August. A unanimous report by health officer* from a-dozen States, whc conferred with' the Federal Health Service denies that a condition approaching l famine or plague exists in the South. The report assorts that previous reports concerning pellagra and misleading and erroneous. / [Last month v the New York Time* correspondent at i 1 Washington reported a •tatement by the, Publib Health Service tha 1- pellagra will claim approximately a hundred thousand persons in the cotton belt States," and' it is expected that 10 pel cent, will die. Tenant farmers who devoted th» greater ipaxt of their land'to cotton culture have been unable to sell their crops, and therefore have been living on salt pork, ?orn meal, and molasses, which ie a semi-starvation diet, because it is not varied. The 'grow-, ing of a variety of crops, which from Urns immemorial has been. the Souths problem, has not yet been solved.
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Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 33, 8 August 1921, Page 6
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170A REPORT DENIED Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 33, 8 August 1921, Page 6
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