Davis County Clipper | 1916-11-10 | Page 5 | Salt and Pellagra

salt and pellagra A sharp increase in the number of cases of pellagra among the poor ot of italy Is expected to follow the issuance of a royal decree adding an additional tax of I 1 cent on a pound of salt sail there are about cases of pellagra in italy at present twenty per cent of the cases brought under observation are fatal pellagra develops almost exclusively among the poorer classes who subsist almost entirely on cornmeal la in one form or another investigation has convinced italian medical men that the use of salt in III corking cooking of corn products prevents for fer and checks the disease the new tax will put salt out of the reach of m my many Y th thousands of italians