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.
A new study indicates that Americans gained up to 15 IQ points after the addition of iodine to salt became mandatory. In an effort to prevent goiter related to iodine deficiency, authorities ruled that iodine be added to U.S. salt products in 1924. The iodine, in addition to eliminating goiter, appears to have had an unexpected result: smarter Americans.