GOITRE.
“If goitre is due to lack of iodine, should not men suffer the same as women because they drink the same water and eat the same food; besides many of the vegetables we use contain the natural salts in abundance,” asks a correspondent, to a contemporary. On this matter being referred to the Health Department, the following reply was made : “In ordinary eases it is the females who suffer from goitre rather the males, due to the particular stress, physiologically, the former are exposed to. In areas where goitre is not particularly prevalent the iscidence of the disease falls very largley upon the female sex. But in areas where the disease is very apparent, this disproportion between the sexes tends to disappear, and the ratio of males to females tends to become more even. This fact has been remarked in many countries. In New Zealand it is found, in connection with the inspection of school children, that in bad goitrous districts as many boys are affected as girls.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3682, 25 August 1927, Page 2
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169GOITRE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3682, 25 August 1927, Page 2
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