| Show H GOITRE IN OUR SCHOOLS A survey surrey of o the schools school of ot Ogden shows s that 53 per cent of ot the chil chil- children children dren are afflicted with goitre prin prin- principally principally in m a ter v er mild form The fhe highest percentage is In the Mound Fort district north of o Ogden Og- Og Ogden den Og-den den river budge bridge and the lowest In Inthe inthe inthe the Dee and Grant schools The high school has 66 56 6 per cent and the junior high 57 per ceo cen Ot 01 the male pupils 41 8 per cent and female emale 63 5 per cent are of af affected affected Beginning with the fall aU term of o school all pupils will be brought II which consists of taking daily a chocolate tablet con con- con containing taming a small quantity of o iodine Of the total cases few would be become I come como serious even If it not treated although one ot or the most prominent I doctors makes this statement dan dan- dangerous dan dangerous All goitres are potentially and most of ot them do in fact eventually e produce not only symptoms symptoms symptoms toms but hut ago ado definite pathologic lesIOns Di 0 P Kimball an authority on goitre makes mahl's the following follo an- an announcement an announcement I The practical application of ot the principle of ot goitre was as asI I started through the public schools of Akron Ohio and as the result of our experience I wish to emphasize em emphasize the practical and funda funda- fundamental fundamental fundamental mental reasons for tor or applying Ing thIs educational and public health measure in the schools schoola By Dy this method practically all the children of adolescent age are reached the work ork can be done undo the died supervision Ision of o the school nurses I I and the education thus given to the children practically ensures the use of this method in later life lire as needed Our observations In Akron ex- ex extended ex extended tended over four tour years during which more than ten thousand dlf girls took iodine as a pro pro pro- pro ph lactic measure for tor at least one term We watched four thousand children for tor a period of ot from two to four our ears ears ears-a a sufficient period forthe for forthe forthe the collection of accurate data Ap Ap- Ap Ap half halt of these took enough nough iodine twice a ear car in the spring and fall to saturate the thy thy- thy thyroid cold roid the other half look no iodine Among those who ho took Iodine as di- di directed dl I dl-I who ho weme Vele normal when hen the administration was as started not one I de developed eloped goitre e while hUe among those who did not take Iodine 27 per cent developed goitre More Moreover over among emong those hose who had goitres and took iodine S in land mOl e than 60 0 per cent tho the th thyroid rold eland returned to normal size I while among those who ho did not take dolne in comparatively Iy very few did did the thyroid gland show an any I tendency to deci eabe In size Dr Klinger and others ha have hate e ob-i ob ob obtained tamed even e more moie mOl e striking In n three cantons o of I Dl DI Muggio Is carrying out the same method throughout the w hole I district of Italy In all ot of othe the tho work ork in this country countr and in not a single case of ot h hyper per per- peri i although has hda been produced al- al al although i though tho the possibility that hippi might develop has been ed from the tho beginning I torn practical observation atlon and experimentation we know that In InI Ina Ina I a great majority of cases of ot goitre the thyroid gement enIt-gement started as a congenital defect detect or begin at pu- pu pu 01 or during pregnancy These are therefore the most important periods of life to consider in con with Ith the prevention of ot got gOI goitre tre It follows follow a that If it during every pregnancy the tho mothers mother's thyroid were ere kept ept saturated with Iodine the tendency to thyroid enlarge enlargement enlargement anent ment In two of ot these periods would be controlled Then Theil it if In addition the tho development de of ot adolescent goi gol goitre tre Ire could be conti controlled oiled through the schools the of ot goiter would be limited to the sporadic cases which develop In the tha course or of long continued Illness lIlles or during duringS S some unu unusual ual period or condition These Thede cases will willI I I respond to treatment If it is le gh giten en early and effectively r |
