1. Goitre in fish is a non-infectious, non-contagious, symptomatic manifestation of a fault of nutrition, the exact biochemical nature of which has not been determined.

2. Feeding the highly artificial and incomplete diet of liver is the major etiological factor in bringing about this fault of nutrition which is at once corrected by feeding whole sea fish.

3. Water plays no essential part in the etiology, transmission, or distribution of the disease in the fish of this hatchery.

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Copyright, 1914, by The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research New York
1914
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