GOITRE IN CHILDREN.
SCHOOL TREATMENT TO END. Christchurch, February 17. At a metting of the Canterbury Education Board to-day a letter was read from the Director of Schools Health regarding school treatment for goitre, to the effect tliat a statement would appear in the next issue of the Education Gazette notifying the discontinuance of the preventative and curative treatment for goitre carried out in the schools during the last four j'ears. The letter stated that a report on the result of this treatment, which has been generally beneficial, was being drawn up. The use of iodised salt was recommended, and individual sufferers from goitre were advised to seek medical opinion befbre beginning any form of treatment. • The committee of the Board described the decision as a retrograde step in its report, and the Board today added “very” before “retrograde” and adopted the report.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3758, 23 February 1928, Page 1
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143GOITRE IN CHILDREN. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3758, 23 February 1928, Page 1
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