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Iron County News
Hurley, Iron County, Wisconsin
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Wisconsin State Health Board endorses iodin treatment for school children to prevent goiter but withholds approval for adding it to municipal water supplies, citing experimental status.
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State Health Board.
Measures used in many cities for the prevention of goiter through treatment of school children with "iodin" under the direction of a physician received the unanimous endorsement of the members of the state board of health at their recent annual meeting at Madison. The plan consists of taking a small amount of sodium iodine in water, or as a wafer, daily for two weeks twice a year.
The board withheld its approval of proposals to treat the water supplies of municipalities with iodin for general administration to the entire population, as is being done by Rochester, N. Y., at the present time. The board held that this work is still in experimental stages and that there are other reasons why such broad adoption of the preventive treatment should await more exact knowledge of the results.
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Madison
Event Date
Recent Annual Meeting
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unanimous endorsement of iodin treatment for school children; withheld approval of iodin in municipal water supplies due to experimental stage and need for more knowledge.
Event Details
Measures for preventing goiter through physician-directed iodin treatment of school children, involving daily sodium iodine for two weeks twice a year, received unanimous endorsement by the state board of health. The board did not approve treating municipal water supplies with iodin for the general population, as done in Rochester, N. Y., citing experimental stages and other reasons.