Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-07-27 | Page 17 | Pellagra is Spreading

I PElLAGRA IS SPREADING l 1 Have Ilave Found No o 0 Cure For Disease DIene iMe PreD Prevalent ent In Oklahoma Hud Texas Washington July 26 Pellagra 26 Pellagra for which ph physicians have found no cure euro Is spreading beyond the tho zone to which it has ha previously been confined conned an and Is Invading new territory acor according to tho the belief beler of or tho the States public health service based upon statistics made mado public today on tho prevalence of ot time the disease in Arkansas Arkansas Oklahoma Oklahoma and Texas c n from 1910 to 1913 Reports from these three thre states bordering on the thc area In which pellagra has mos most extensively existed In this country show says sas Surgeon C. C C A. A Lavender the prevalence o of the disease to no In Inconsiderable inconsiderable In- In considerable The Time total cotal tal number of or cases In OIca- OIca Okla OkIa- hoina honma hOla durIn during during- the thc six years ears was wa with a a. death leath rate per cases of oC In Texas Texa cates cases death rate and In Arkan Arkansas as death rate 90 The figures for tor Arkansas for Cor 11 1912 were I Incomplete a Co m p 1 etc Today's report which supplemented a previous pellagra report giving statistics statistics stats stats- statis statis- tics for Cor other states Is ot of peculiar In Interest Interest Interest In- In terest at this time line me In iii II connection with wih the time bill of or Representative e Johnson of oC bU South Carolina for tor a lar large e appropriation lion tion for tor the erection of ot a hospital at Spartanburg ton S. S C C. for or th the study stud of f pela pellagra r Tho The public health service has bill been asked cd to give Us its Is support to the theU U