Show GIRLS I HAVE GOITRE I I Urge Use of or Seaweed to Counteract Gland I i i Disease I LOS ANGELES ANGELUS Calif Aug 4 i OP Halt A Half of ot the girls living In a 1 abelt abelt belt extending from New w York to the tho Rocky mountains have In Incipient In- In goitre oltre and the number so afflicted Is Increasing with the growth of ot population declared Dr J. J J W. W of ot the United States Slates department of ot agriculture In a paper presented today at the seventieth meeting of ot the Amen Ameri- American can Chemical society which Is be in K held here I This Increase might be bo checked Dr said If It growing children were given a dally por por- portion portion portion tion of or four tour of ot an ounce of ot Iodine The readiest form In which this may be taken talen Into the system Is seaweed d. d one-one one thousandth thou thou- thousandth thousandth of ot an nn ounce of or dry algae or seaweed containing tho iho essen- essen result 01 Quantity of ot Iodine The same result may be bo obtained from cat cat- catIng calIng Ing log 25 ounces of ot oysters 24 ounces of ot sea sen fish fUh ounces of ot fresh water le fish ounces of I Is eggs s ounces of lettuce tu I ounces of or mill milk ml lit or 2400 ounces of ot w wheat heat I 00 oo |