DISEASE IN AMERICA

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XIX, Issue 6280, 26 July 1921, Page 2

DISEASE IN AMERICA

PELLAGRA IH COTTON STATES

CLAIMS iW.-UOO VICTIMS

TLX PEL COT. MAV DIE. (Australian and X.Z. Cable) (Received 8 a..m.) XK\V YORK, July 25. It is reported that pellagra will claim 100.000 victims in the cotton belt States, am! ten per cat. will probably die. The cotton are unable to s;ll| their crops, and have been compelled to live on salt pork, corn meal and moLss s, which is a starvation diet because «.(• its

want of variation. The south Ins not yet mired the old problem of growing a diversity of .crops.

Pellagra is a disease ocean ing in Italy. Southern France and Spain, ami is attributed to the use of d.seascdy maize. Lt E characterised by debility, spinal pains, and digestive disturbances. The disease is also known as Lombardian leprosy.