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Show THREATENED WITH SCOURGE. Discovery of Dread Disease Causes Much Uneasiness. Columbia, S. C "Whilo wo regard Mr. Rockefeller's princely gift for eradication of tho hookworm nt its true valuo, wo say one million dollars for tho battlo against the disease of pellagra would be far more valuable." valu-able." Thus doclared Colonel E. J. Watson, Wat-son, Souah Carolina's commissioner of agriculture' In an address before tho first national conference on pal-lagra, pal-lagra, which opened here on Wednesday. Wed-nesday. George C. Seller, superintendent of tho stato hospital for tho Insane, at Peoria, 111., bolleved the . country is threatened with a national scourge. Tho discovery of pallagra In the Peoria hospital was made August 7. last, since which tlmo 130 cases havo been diagnosed as pallagra, 45 of tho patlontB having died. |