Deadly Beriberi An Eastern Disease
CHINESE PATIENT DIES Two cases of the curious rice disease, beriberi, one of which proved fatal, have been reported to the Health Office this week. Both the patients were Chinese. The disease, which is rare in New Zealand, is not infectious. It is a food disease purely and simply arising from the consumption of polished rice. The last case reported in Auckland occurred in Te Kuiti in 1922. the patient being a Chinese. Sufferers lose power in the limbs and are subject to swellings and dropsical conditions. “Undoubtedly,” said Dr. H. Chesson, Medical Officer of Health, “if Europeans depended on one particular class of over-refined food they would suffer either from beriberi or scurvy.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 50, 21 May 1927, Page 11
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119Deadly Beriberi An Eastern Disease Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 50, 21 May 1927, Page 11
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