THE DETECTION AND TREATMENT OF NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY DISEASES

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The shortage of manpower has stimulated increased interest in the health and welfare of the industrial worker, with the result that never before have so many physicians, nutritionists and nurses directed their efforts toward the problems of nutrition in industry. Already much has been accomplished in initiating and improving inplant feeding of workers and in educating the worker and his family as to what constitutes a satisfactory diet.1The results to date are gratifying, but much is still to be done. My interest in nutritional rehabilitation began when I was working at the University Hospitals in Cleveland in 1930. There, after carefully studying 278 patients with deficiency diseases, I noticed that 17 of them had the endemic type of the disease—that is, they developed their disease from ingesting an inadequate diet in contrast to other persons in our series who had predisposing or precipitating causes such as organic disease

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