Show Daily Health i Service By 7 OB DL MORRIS FIS FISHBEIN BEIN Keep yourself and your family well wen nourished and you will wUl avoid one of the m mst most st treacherous diseases that have hav ravaged the world d. d The disease lU It pellagra the serious er us skin epidemic that has been associated with poverty pov pov- erty wh wherever rev r It has haa appeared The depress depression on might have been Icen the cause of a rise in the occurrence I at of this this' in the southern part of be United States in the Mediterranean canaan countries and some of the glands of the West Indies where pov pov- still stU reaches a high f figure e. e Only In Italy has the rate dropped probably due to changes In the dieto diet o of th the p people brought about by a rise In m the standard of living In rn Georgia during 1930 at le least st 20 20 DOO p pers persons rs ns suffered from pellagra nd nd the annual death rate from this Disease In the countries where it is most prominent has risen during the ye five years rs Although it generally was under under- at least years ago that poverty pov- pov erty lerty was In some way related to the thet t 4 disease se through inadequate diet die a a definite relationship of the disease to diet ll t did not cot be become ome established until r recently came the view that pellagra was due e wholly to eating corn This Thi was a logical conclusion be because the because the diet of the poor consisted largely of corn 11 or maize I f Today the view generally Is held pellagra Is due to a deficiency of ofa a vitamin which Is Js part of vitamin B B. Vitamin B B consists of vitamins Bl Bi Bland Bland and which also alAo are arc called F and GA G G. A A. deficiency of vitamin Bl Bi In the diet results in inflammation of the wh whereas reas a deficiency of vita vita- mm results in the condition called pellagra In the United States the attack o othe on the disease Is 11 being made through Carious factors But there seems to toe be Je e no doubt that change in the eco ceo mic situation in the family seems to tobe tobe tobe be the most Important factor Thus two authorities say T III for fort cas cases of pellagra the iha home surrounded by evidences es of S good garden a cow or two a few Digs and nd s some me poultry may mayas mayas' as well Abe be p pissed passed s1 up for the he chances are are less than ihan o one e in in a thousand that pellagra will be found |