Open AccessObservations on Deficiency Diseases in Labrador
Author(s) -
V. B. Appleton
Publication year - 1921
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2330-9687
pISSN - 0271-4353
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.11.7.617
Subject(s) - incidence (geometry) , medicine , environmental health , disease , geography , demography , physics , sociology , optics
This observer had the rare opportunity of comparing communities of humans whose dietary could be absolutely determined. The Esquimos on the Labrador side of Belle Isle were able to get food with vitamins enough to protect them, but those on the Newfoundland side, even with milk from underfed cows, had much incidence of deficiency disease.