Show PEllAGRA INfECTIOUS COMMISSIONS COMMISSION'S fiNDING it if iti i Old Theories Regarding Origin o of Disease De- De 11 1 Glared dared Erroneous s sr sr i r f r r t I New et York Nov 18 Pellagra Pellagra from which mOl more than persons Inthis In Inthis this country arc arc- said aid to be suffering can cat he be controlled according to a report rc- rc port Jion b by a commission slon of the tho Postgraduate Post- Post graduate Medical School and Hospital Of or this city mado made public today The commission also announced Its conclusion that the disease I 1 Is infectious i and is not caused b bv by an nu r unbalance or inadequate grato diet Whey found the disease spreads through lack of or proper f sewer aeter facilities tail and that ilist I tho the mOtH most ei- ei p means of or it is byl by bythe l the Installation of ot efficient sewage ago ys- ys These findings are the result of ot an extensive e Investigation which the toe commission has conducted In Spartanburg Spartan- Spartan t bin burg g county South Carolina whore where the commission Ilon reports scores of or per- per have ha died from pellagra I Tho commission admitted that hat it had hadnot nut not discovered dl cov red the tho cause of the case easo but reported It had disproved theM tho the M I theory that pellagra was due to tho the bite left by the tho black fly fh or that it was tT caused b by th the presence of or certain minerals nun min t orals In drinking water or 01 b by eating I 3 ma maize Iz |