[Report 1926] / School Medical Officer of Health, Cumberland County Council.

  • Cumberland County Council
Date:
1926
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    It is the utmost folly to wait till a child is obviously ill, and then and only then to seek medical advice. In may last report I published, in Appendix B, observa¬ tions “ On Iodine,” by Dr. Kenneth Fraser. In a revised edition of that report, he said :— ‘‘When this report was originally issued.my own investigations were admittedly primitive for reasons given before. I wrote, therefore, iinder the fear that I claimed too much for Iodine. Since then a mass of information has come my way, and I know quite definitely that I claimed too little.” That Dr. Fraser claimed too little for Iodine I am perfectly convinced. The two following quotations, taken from a mass of letters on this subject, one from a specialist in the Midlands, and one from a distinguished Professor in Ireland, are clear indications that his observations are appreciated outside the County of Cumberland :— ‘‘ Your report ‘ On Iodine ’ is the most important contribution to medicine that has appeared for man}^ years.” “ I feel that it is a most important contribution to our knowledge of ‘ deficiency diseases.’ ” Iodine therapy has brought under effective treatment (see Appendices B. & C.) a large section of well-known condi¬ tions which can hardly be classed as definite diseases, but which nevertheless give rise to troublesome symptoms, the causes of which were hitherto never realised, and for which the treat¬ ment, if any were given, was most ineffective. But to my mind the vista opened up on the preventive side of medicine, and on which Dr. Fraser is now engaged, is of infinitely greater importance even than the curative side, wliich has been so ably dealt with in ‘‘ On Iodine.” I have the honour to be. Ladies and Gentlemen, Yours obediently, F. H. MORISON, M.D., D.P.H., School Medical Officer,
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