GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 28 August 1919, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

TREATMENT OF GOITRE

(BY TELEGRAPH— PEEHB ASSOCIATION ) „., . T^ANGANUI, Aug. 27. the serious spread of goitre among children was impressed on the Wanganm | Education Board tonight by Dr. Elizabeth Gunii Medical Inspector of I Scho^- ,"1 have," she sported, "examined 5-1 girls, aged from 11 to 14 in •me Wanganui school. Thirty-one' of those girls have goitre and 23 are without it, Out of thoi© 64 uSg 26 were physical deformities. The girls are tired and lackadaisical. Their moth- ~' f »'. Guna then outlined the £S + Avhich sh» is proposing to the Education Department She would like to take, say, 50 girls tStl 1 medi^v exa^iSthem measure their neck, etc., with, special attention to size, and the shapVtf goitres and then have them m V en some ,odine every day. This shouW be OT^ikS?!? 8- She WOUld also have imS* <r !he s&^.a^ and class who would get n» medicine. The oomnari*on at the end of the period wodd Se was sure, show the value of iodine!