The prevalence of pellagra in the United States : a statistical and geographical note with bibliography / by C.H. Lavinder and C.F. Williams and J.W. Babcock.

  • Lavinder, C. H. (Claude Hervey), 1872-1950.
Date:
1909
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Credit: The prevalence of pellagra in the United States : a statistical and geographical note with bibliography / by C.H. Lavinder and C.F. Williams and J.W. Babcock. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Recently a letter of inquiry (see below) about pellagra was ad- dressed by another of the present writers (C. F. W.) to the superin- tendents of state hospitals for the insane in the United States, and the following table embodies their replies: To 164 inquiries 120 replies were received, about 20 being in the affirmative. New York: Number of cases, few (near Brooklyn). Pennsylvania (Dixmont): Number of cases, 1; recognized, 1909 (Hungarian). Maryland; Number of cases, 1 or 2; recognized, 1909; probably existed since 1905; male, 1; female, 1. Virginia (Staunton): Number of cases, 1 (?); recognized, 1908. Virginia (Petersburg): Number of cases, 1 (?). North Carolina (Raleigh): Number of cases, several; recognized, 2 or 3 years; prob- ably existed 10 years. North Carolina (Goldsboro): Number of cases, 8; recognized, 1908; probably existed 10 years; female, 8. North Carolina (Doctor Taylor, Morganton): Number of cases, 8; probably existed 22 years. North Carolina (Doctor McCampbell, Morganton): Number of cases, 20; probably existed 5 years. North Carolina (Doctor Wood, Wilmington): Number of cases, 75 in State. South Carolina State Hospital; Number of cases, 125; recognized, 1907; probably existed 20 to 30 years; male, 25 per cent; female, 75 per cent. South Carolina (Doctor Williams, Columbia): Number of cases, 500 estimated in State. Georgia (Grady Hospital, Atlanta): Number of cases, 10; recognized, 1907. Georgia (State Sanitarium, Milledgeville): Number of cases, 225; recognized, 1907; probably existed about 25 years; male, 25 per cent; female, 75 per cent. Florida (State Hospital, Chattahoochee): Number of cases, 12; recognized, 1907; probably existed 4 years; male, 5; female, 7. Alabama (Mount Vernon Hospital): Number of cases, 154, and 2 private; recognized, 1906; probably existed since 1906; male, small number; female, large number. Dr. G. H. Searcy estimates 150 to 200 cases in State. Mississippi (Jackson): Number of cases, 1; other cases in State. Mississippi (Meridian): Number of cases, 2; recognized, 1907 (?);male, 1; female, 1. Louisiana (Pine\dlle): Number of cases, 3. Tennessee (Baptist Orphans’ Home, Nash\dlle): Number of cases, 11. Kansas (Topeka): Number of cases, 6 (?); probably existed 15 years; male, 3; female, 3. Kansas (Epileptic colony. Parsons): Number of cases, 1; probably existed, native. This table seems to show that there are records of about 1,000 cases of })ellagra scattered in 13 States. More than half of these have been reported from asylums or similar institutions. Sporadic or suspected cases have been reported from Texas and Arkansas, as well as from New York. Di-. E. J. Wood, of Wilmington, N. C., has records of 300 cases in the South, 75 of which occurred in North Carolina. It has been esti- mated that hundreds of cases exist in Georgia, and Doctor Walker, of the State Sanitarium, Milledgeville, says that 2 per cent of over 047 admissions in 1008 were cases of pellagra.