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FAILURE OF ABUNDANT SUNSHINE TO PROTECT AGAINST RICKETS
C. ULYSSES MOORE, M.D.;
JESSIE LAIRD BRODIE, M.D.;
A. J. THORNTON, M.D.;
ALEX M. LESEM, M.D.;
OLIVE B. CORDUA, M.D.
Am J Dis Child. 1937;54(6):1227-1238.
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Although during the past decade preventive measures have almost eliminated severe rickets, milder forms of this dyscrasia still persist. The desire to ascertain how prevalent rickets continues to be and, if possible, what its relationship is to climatic and certain other factors prompted the present fact-finding, cross-sectional survey. For this study two localities were chosen which differed markedly as to climate, one being in the cloudy northwestern part of the Pacific coast and the other in its sunny southwestern part, yet were of the same country and of the same altitude (sea level) and had inhabitants of similar habits of living and diet.
Portland had an average of 2,194 hours of sunshine per year, compared with 3,024 hours in San Diego—a difference of 38 per cent. In addition, for the years from 1930 to 1934 inclusive, the average annual temperature in Portland was 54.6 F., while that of San Diego
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Author Affiliations
PORTLAND, ORE.; SAN DIEGO, CALIF.
Footnotes
This study was made through the cooperation in Portland of the University of Oregon Medical School, the Oregon Parent-Teacher Association and the Portland Pediatric Society, and in San Diego of the City and County Health Bureau, especially the Public School Division, and of other physicians and of dentists in both cities. It was financed largely by a grant of funds from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
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