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Show CAUSE AND CURE OF PELLAGRA Exhaustive Experiments on Convicts at Mississippi State Farm. The, cause and cure of pellagra have been alscovered to the saUsfaction of government experts anC sta?emcia?s 'ho have just concluded exhaustlva experiments on convicts at thelSa slpi state farm. The United qJ!?L Public health sorvlcl and ?he mSS? vlLmCal horiUes a?e con-" containing too manXTydes sur8 te7izT United States and that S SL J5e are directly due to the JaJwe, oB disease. Now officials of Si! ?C fhls and other southern stated J IIsbIbs1PPI gra has flourished thl nZV ,pella are taking BtepBtoaSteSellr case by educating the dSd! I more cereals afewe ?If eat C-ernoY0 &$?& , leered to autoS' toSS;00 vol"n-by vol"n-by the oxperimenterl toetSroposed definitely the Suso of pellaS1119 men were put on a wffV Thes strlcted diet The? S!JllfU but re-culls. re-culls. fried mu8Ti6ygrU3ereani,Vehn b,a' gravy, syrup, corn bread I ?u0W,i sweet potato, rlVe 21 cabbaee. fee with sugar, but ?"'eat;nd eggs, beans neas X -i .f18. milk, foods. ' P 8 r flImI1arproteia la five moath, of J convicts developed definite cases of i fi pellagra. Other convicts, drinking the i ffc same water and doing the same rou- j J tine as the eleven under observation ; 3le. but given an unrestricted diet, remain- .c ftiD ed free from all traces of pellagra. , Jayit When pellagra became a menace in !& jii the south a decade ago, it was at first ,i gore believed that It was due to eating 4 a damp or spoiled corn. This theory gg; was soon dissipated by the work of I 2L! the public health service. i R Ex-perlments were conducted In ser- fffc eral institutions. In an institution for v! W girls it was found that l0 babies un- jL der five years of age incurred the dis- )r " ease, and none of the girls over six- m teen WhO Wero Hntnrr rnmnoToHimlir ' X hard work. Between the ages of five '. ,n and sixteen, however, the disease was ,p very prevalent, except among thoso 'V -r' girls who worked in the kitchen. I K!& It was discovered that the kitchen i' jfS, workers were stealing all the meat, ' Iffir eggs and milk they wanted, while the " 2f ' other workers of the same age did not m get these proteid-containing foods !' SST This was the basis on which the con- ' Si0, vlct experiment was started to de- i & termine whether the theory about the , i1 lack of -proteid foods was correct 1 oo (fl5SP |