Show PEllAGRA IS s TRACED May Have Beer Been Cause of Much of Suffering in Southern Prisons Washington Oct Ocl are 1000 victims of Pellagra In tie the United States Slates This approximation is on tho tiu authority of oC Dr DI C V past assIstant nt surgeon of the United States health and marine hospital set ser service vice who finds records or of the dreaded disease in thirteen states Medical men ibid nud that It Is not corn com except through eating ibis Ilois food or as occasionally happens lie drinking or of alcoholic liquors made from froni poisoned grain At Its inception it Is curable in iii some cases but when It affects the tue reason it is necessarily fa fatal lal Little attention has lias been paid to pellagra In hue United States but hul no now It Is believed that much of the scurvy and aud insanity which was lent lont In southern mill military tar prisons thur duro In lag the Civil war waS pellagra Tho Thio diet for the most part was maize In tho for of ameal which a ns ofton ft t time lime w rm rind arid seldom If thor well cooled cooked The Indictment against corn as tho ho cause causo of the disease has been par lifted by br the of oC Dr Las La Imler from a Peoria Ill III insane which contains 1 1 I lagra patients Some of these have hae In tide tho asylum wh whore re corn has rarely heen used In the diet diel |