A TERRIBLE PROSPECT
PELLAGRA IN AMERICAN COTTON * STATES. EXPECTED TO CLAIM MANY THOUSAND VICTIMS. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received July 25, 8.20 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 24. The “New York Times” Washington correspondent reports a statement by the Public Health S'ervice that pellagra will claim approximately 100,000 .persons in the cotton belt States, and jt is expected that 10 per cent, will die. The tenant fanners who devoted the greater part of their land to cotton culture have been nnable to sell their crops; therefore they baVe been living on salt pork, corn meal, and molasses, which is a semi-starvation diet, because it is not varied. The 'growing of a diversity of crops, which from timo immemorial has been the South’s problem, has not yet been solved. Pellagra is a kind of elephantiasis often recurrent in tho spring. It is common in Southern Europe among the peasantry, and is said to be caused by a fungus parasitic on maize or by a ptomaine developed by its putrefaction.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10962, 26 July 1921, Page 6
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168A TERRIBLE PROSPECT New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10962, 26 July 1921, Page 6
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