The Ely miner., 1924-02-15

optimum effects Zig. 81 instead Of |
sodium iodid which we were using, |
the Zurich authorities employed an
organic iodid which is non hygro-
scopic, practically tasteless and very
stable-a vegetable fatty acid COM
pound which is combined with choco-
late and made into tablets-each
containing 5 milligrams of iodin.
This preparation is pleasant to take
and keeps in definitely.
"This method has been employed
in all the schools of the cantons Of
St. Gallen, Berne and Zurich for
more than three years with even
more than striking results than
those obtained by us in this country.
A recent report of the Health Com
| mission Of the Canton of st. GallenI
gives the following statistics; In
cidence of goiter among all the
school children of the Canton of st.
Gallen-January 1918, 87.6 per
cent; January 1922, 1871 per cent.
"On account of the extraordinary
results obtained in these three can
tons during the past three years,
the Goiter Commission of Switzer-
land last spring recommended that
this method of goiter prevention be
Instituted as public health measure
/ throughout the entire state which
is the most noted endemic goiter
district in the world
During these years the work has
been extending to this country.
Following the work in Akrcn the
schools in the adjoining counties of
Kent and Ravenna adopted the
same method of prevention in 1919.
The village of Berea, Ohio, also has
been administering iodin for the
prevention and treatment of goiter
through the schools. The same
method is in use in the schools of
! Warren and Niles, but ir these
places iodin is given only to pupils
in whom goiter has started to de-
velop. This method of treatment is
being practiced also in some of the
large factories in Cleveland in which
many girls are employed.
/ "In at least a dozen other cities
in Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin
some effort is being made to carry
out this public health measure
nothing definite has been accom-
] plished as yet.
/ "In the Cleveland district the
school physicians, the Board of
Health and the Academy of Medi-
cine have been endeavoring to
Popularize the idea of goiter pre-
vention.
"The method used in the schools
here is fundamentally the same as
that employed in Akron. For the
past two years tablets of Sodium
iodid, (sodium iodid, gr. / with
sugar of milky, have been used,
but these have not proved very sue
cessful Very few were actually
used in East Cleveand, Cleveland
Heights and Shaker Heights. ard
tnly ten thousand tablets were used
in all of the Cleveland schools.
After studying this particular phase
of the work in these districts from
the viewpoint of the girls, their
parents and teachers, and from our
own experiences in the work at
Akron, we find the greatest diff
Guilty is the disagreeable taste of
sodium iodid. The psychology of
/ girls of this age is such that few
enthusiastic objectors can demoral-
ize the entire work in large school.
"This year the schools in East
Cleveland, Shaker Heights, Warren,
Niles and Findlay, Ohio, are using
chocolate tablets each containing
10 milligrams of iodin in the form
of an organic iodid. Each girl
takes one tablet a week throughout
the year, and we can safely say that
for these girls goiter prevention
will be one IF the most pleasant
and efficient parts of their. school
work.
"The possibility of harm from the
dosage Of iodin which we have been
using is absolutely negligible. We
saw a mild rash in but one per
thousand of the cases treated in
Akron; and in all the work which
has benn done in Switzerland not a
single case has been seen, although
they have been looking for it..
Neither in this country nor in
Switzerland has a single case of
exophthalmic goiter been produced.
SUMMARY.
s'In these endemic goiter districts
if every woman would keep her
Thyroid saturated with iodin during
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