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Show Pellagra and Income. After a three-year study of pellagra In the cotton-mill villages of South Carolina, the United States public health service shows that pellagra varies inversely with the family income in-come in this 1 oral it. v. As the .income fell the disease was found to increase and to affect more members of the same family. As the income rose the disease decreased, and was rarely found in families that enjoyed the highest incomes, even though this highest was still quite low. A recent statement given by one of the large life insurance companies indicates in-dicates that the food standards of Southern wage earners must have improved im-proved remarkably of late, for the death rate from pellagra has. fallen from 6.7 per 100,000 in 1915 to 2.3 in 1919. |