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Show Milford Has the Smallest Per Cent Goiter Prevalency Dr. James Wallace who has just reported on his goiter survey of the state for the state board of health, makes some very interesting statements. state-ments. He confirms the theory that iodine remedies goiter prevelancy, and in support of that theory he gives several examples, among which is one of great interest to Milford. It shows that Milford water has the most iodine and the smallest per cent of goiter in its schools of any place mentioned in his report. As a rule, scientists say, five parts of iodine per billion or water are found necessary to prevent endemic goiter appearing. Tha experience at Lakeview and Goshen indicate a decidedly de-cidedly beneficial effect of the presence pres-ence of about one-half that amount. Goiter sometimes persists and I sometimes disappears in after life. It is more common aurmg certain periods of activity in the physica! system, such as growth and adolescence. adoles-cence. As a rule, seaboard areas, are comparatively free from goiter, and this is attributed to tne part that sei. fish take in the diet. Ocean water car ries a considerable proportion of iodine. io-dine. So do the waters of Louisiana, a state in which goiter is practically unknown. In connection wiln me study of thei subject, made by the state boam of health, and the state-wide survey of the school children, made for the board by Dr. Wallace, the board has urgiCd a preventive campaign after a method effective in oilier states which administers in little candies, given once a week, minute portions of iodine to make up for the lack of this constituent in the water. Such partial surveys zjs have been made to date to determine the results re-sults of the preventive or prophylactic prophylac-tic treatment indicates, according to state board officials, that not only does this minute portion of iodine prevent occurrence of new cases of goiter among the children, but also tends to reduce the enlargements among those in whom ;t has already been detected. MILFORD SHOWS WELL For example, Milford draws its water supply from a deep artesian well. Analysis of the water by Dr. J. F. McClendon, who has specialized in this work, shows 9.51 parts of iodine io-dine per billion parts of water. In Milford only 14.3 per cent of the school children were round to have indications of the enlarged thyroid and of these several were high school pupils from outside: the city, or children chil-dren of families that had recently uoved to the city. Perhaps even more illuminating I was the fact that at Lakeview, Utah county, where the water showed 2.16 parts per billion an analysis, the percentage of tigroid enlargement in school children was found to be 17.2. At the nereby communities oi Alpine and Grove Creek, where only .IS and .45 parts ot iodine per billion, bil-lion, respctively. were round in the water, the percentage of thyroid eu-j largement among (he school children was 5S.1. Goshen was the only other community com-munity where the water analysis i showed more than one part of iodine per billion of water, the proportion, there beinfi 2.5 parts. The percent-j age of .thyroid enlargement in the; school children was found to lie only 14. S. In twenty-four other communities, j where the iodine was found present ( in so small proportions that no exact ex-act reading could be maae, oven by au analysis' s0 delicate as that ot Lk. Mcf'lendon's. the percentage of thyroid thy-roid enlargement ran roughly from 30 to 75, with the average around 50 per cent. In Ogrien where the amount wa reported so small that any exact reading was uncertain, the percentage percent-age of thyroid1 enlargement among school children was 5.1; at Kamas. under similar conditions, it was 4 5. In Levan It was 73. |