SPREAD OF GOITRE.
WARNING BY DR. ELIZABETH GUNN. Wanganui, Last Eight. The serious spread of goitre among children was impressed on the Wanganui Education Board to-night by Dr. Elizabeth Gunn, medical in-, Spector of schools. “I have examined 54 girls, aged from 11 to 14, at a Wanganui school, and 31 of those girls have goitre and 23 are without it. Out of those 54 girls, 2(1 have physical deformities. The girls are tired and lackadaisical, and-the mothers complain that it is the result of home lessons.” Dr, Gunn then outlined the course of treatment which she is proposing to the Education Department, and she wo'uld like to take, say, 50 girls aged from 11 to 14, medically examine them, measure their necks etc,, with special attention to the size and shape of the goitres, and ■ then have them given some iodine every day. This should be given once a day for live days at for six mouths. She would also have 50 girls of the same age and class, who would get no medicine. The comparison at the end of the V period would, she was sure, show, the value of iodine.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2021, 28 August 1919, Page 2
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193SPREAD OF GOITRE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2021, 28 August 1919, Page 2
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