[Incidence of goiter in the Naumburg district]

10% of the inhabitants of the district of Naumburg were examined for their state of the thyroid gland. The average morbidity of struma was 25.2%. Above all the struma stages I and II were found. The maxima of frequency were in the age groups of the 20--29-year-old persons with 68% in the females and 27.4% in the males. Of the 585 inhabitants of the village Grossjena (85% of the total population) 32.9% has a struma. The patterns of distribution corresponded, apart from a second peak in the females at the time of the climacterium, to the patterns found in the whole region of Naumburg. The average iodine excretion in the urine of 19.9 micrograms/g creatinine was still undercut by the 12- to 15-year-old pupils of this village with 14.8 micrograms/g creatinine. The relation of female to male carriers of struma was on an average at 2.5 : 1. In individual age groups the sex-conditioned differences were eliminated. Relation of sex, excretion of iodine and frequency of struma confirm the endemic character of the struma disease in the district of Naumburg and confirm an iodine deficiency of IInd to IIIrd degree. The results intensely emphasize the necessity of a centrally regulated iodate prophylaxis.