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John Arnold

_The Evening Post_, 11 September 1924:
GOITRE
GROWTH IN NEW ZEALAND
A SIMPLE REMEDY
HEALTH DEPARTMENT’S
CAMPAIGN.
Recently “The Post” has published several articles [about] the prevalence of #goitre in New Zealand and the special measures that are being taken by the Department of Health…. Professor Hercus, of the Medical School of Otago, … is carrying out investigations into the #iodine content of soil and vegetables in various parts of New Zealand.… valuable information … indicating the districts [to] be concentrated upon for … prophylactic measures.
The School Medical Service of the Health Department is this year undertaking the administration of minimal doses of iodine preparations to school children in specially selected areas. This work, which has been under way for two or three years, has produced satisfactory and encouraging results. Lately, in the food and drugs regulations recognition was made of the fact that the addition of iodine to common salt is a most useful means of prophylaxis…. A regulation has been introduced allowing the sale of salt containing iodine.… the use of iodised salt may be made compulsory in certain districts….
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/news
#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #Health #IodisedSalt #IodizedSalt #Goiter #NewZealand

Black-and-white portrait photo: Ashley Heath Baigent. 1917. Photography, Berry & Co., Wellington. Description: The soldier in this almost-full portrait is wearing military uniform, but without a hat. He has short hair, is clean-shaven and seated on a small table. has been identified as Gunner Ashley Heath Baigent of the New Zealand Field Artillery.  Ashley was a farmer from Takaka at the time he attested for service on 8 January 1917. He was assigned to the 25th Reinforcements, New Zealand Field Artillery  but was found to have a goitre and therefore ‘unfit for active service’. Citation: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (B.044366). https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/362531
Colour photo: Bag, 5lb Selva Iodised Table Salt. Manufactured 1930s. Description: A white bag with red and green printing. It was manufactured by the New Cheshire Salt Works in Northwich, England, and sold in Southland A1 Stores. The bag was probably imported before the establishment of New Zealand salt works in the 1940s. Background: Before the 1920s, many New Zealanders suffered from goitre as a result of iodine deficiency. This deficiency also caused mental disabilities in young children. In 1924, the New Zealand government established an initiative to add iodine to table salt. This public health action virtually eradicated goitre by the 1950s. Citation: Wyndham and District Historical Museum, Object No. WY.1990.153.6.  https://ehive.com/collections/3102/objects/996257/bag-5lb-selva-iodised-table-salt
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Lise Andreasen

A National Evil
Jonah Goodman on the curse of the goitre in Switzerland
4499 words
As far as the archivist knew, the 48 box files locked in an attic above the Institute for the History of Medicine at the University of Bern had never been opened. ... Gothic newsprint hailed victory over a ‘national evil’. ‘It sounds like a fairy tale,’ the front page of a 1922 copy of Tages-Anzeiger said.
#goitre #iodine #tablesalt #science #medicine
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n23/jo

London Review of Books · Jonah Goodman · A National EvilAt the turn of the 20th century, the Swiss were plagued by strange, interlinked medical conditions, which existed...
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Scottish Lass

Jonah Goodman · A National Evil. London Review of Books
"Jonah Goodman on the curse of the goitre in Switzerland"
Found this a strangely fascinating scientific detective story and the relationship between geology and health
#Iodine #Goitre #Switzerland
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n23/jo

London Review of Books · Jonah Goodman · A National EvilAt the turn of the 20th century, the Swiss were plagued by strange, interlinked medical conditions, which existed...
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