Orange County vital records are available from the County Clerk's office (http://www.co.orange.tx.us/). The county clerk files and records birth and death certificates and issues marriage licenses. The office serves the cities/towns of Bridge City, Lakeview, Mauriceville, North Vidor, Orange, Orangefield, Pine Forest, Rose City, Vidor, and West Orange.
Confidence votes 14. Iodine is the element (in the form of the salt sodium iodide) that is added to table salt to prevent the development of a goiter, (enlargement of the thyroid gland) Was this answer useful? Becca7120012.
The iodine/goiter story had a happy ending, however, when manufacturers began adding iodine to salt (iodized salt). After that, goiters in the U.S. mostly disappeared. But the iodine story turns out to have an epilogue. A new epidemic of iodine deficiency has occurred.