Primitive Methods in Rice Milling

the rice, and also that the wheat atta used in Calcutta is so finely sifted that it is also deprived of these ingredients even to a greater extent than the rice. (7) Pigeons feci on polished rice, boiled and unboiled, suffer from loss of weight and from a characteristic polyneuritis. (8) The severe outbreaks of this disease in Calcutta in 1877-79 and 1907-09 are correlated with a high price of food and the cessation of the epidemics has synchronised with a fall in the price of food. It will be observed that these conclusions very closely resemble those arrived at by Braddon, Fraser and Stanton in their work on beri-beri in the Malay Peninsula. It is therefore clear that the use of highly polished and elegant looking rice is more dangerous than the cheap and coarser varieties, and the same remark applies to finely mill-ground wheat atta.