PROBLEM OF GOITRE
LOXDOX, July 12. Oue of thc outfvtanding proltlems of Xew Zealand medical environinent, was jiosed by the high incidence in the Doniinion of thyroid disease or siniple endeniic goitre, said Professor C. E. ilercus in a pajier presented to the Einjiire tScientiflc Gonference. Xo part of Xew Zealand was free of goitre, he said. There was a notable deticiency in dietarv iodine conipared with' the I'aciiic islands of Sainoa, Fiji and the -lolonions where thyroid disease _was .ilmost unknown. The most notable develojiinent duriug the war years had been the adoption of the use of iodised salt which was calculated to bring the Xew Zealand iodine intake to the level obtaining in the goilre-free area of Sanioa. The niain weakness was that Ihe use of iodised salt was optional vvitli the result not all the population was protoetcd. A notable reduction liad already been acJiieved in thyroid enlargenient among school children as ihe result of the use of iodised salt.
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Chronicle (Levin), 13 July 1946, Page 5
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