Instead capital flows were squandered in consumption and consumptive investments. The town was described as "a veritable Eden for consumptive invalids". The total water used in an agricultural field includes surface runoff, drainage and consumptive use. Total water withdrawals for consumptive use are 78 BCM/year. Most consumptive conditions lead to platelet activation, and some are associated with thrombosis. It forbade "riba" in "production loans" as well as "consumptive" loans. Overexpression of deiodinase can thus lead to consumptive hypothyroidism. The annual crop consumptive use of water is about . Deronda, searching for Mirah's family, meets a consumptive visionary named Mordecai. His mother, who was also consumptive, hanged herself in February 1895. He lived with his sister, a flat-chested, consumptive old maid. The consumptive sister, not having received her share of motley shells, was already burning out.