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Show A REPRODUCTION Introducing tho Utah Public Health association in a plan for some specialjzpd work, You folks' all-knownhat' ottr-geaenU a'liHs for ""the" -betterment of health conditions all over the state and that we are interested and want to be allied with every movement which helps the community com-munity health. But wo are specially interested interest-ed in the problem of tuberculosis its cure of course but more than Its cure and of a great deal more importance, in its preven-t&ni. preven-t&ni. And I should spell that word in capital letters, for it expresses and sums up tho sentiment sen-timent of the entire nation na regards health work. We are cognizant in a community sense! or we are on tho way to cognizanceof cog-nizanceof tho fact that - an ounce of prevention Is worth a pound of cure. I'd make it ten pounds. If, by careful supervision of the growing generation wo can inculcate habits of health and hygiene and teach these subjects sub-jects by practice as well as precept, pre-cept, we can reasonably hope for a now standard of health and a rising generation of clean minded, mind-ed, sane thinking, alive boys and girls. Of co,ursc the thinking men and women, the ones who read their newspapers well and who find items to interest them on the sport sheet more power to H as well as in he editorial, telegraph, social, financial or purely local columns, realize that something must be done for those who today are afflicted afflict-ed with tuberculosis. It is a disease that is with us. It is contagious and cpmmtnlcable, and only when wo awake definitely de-finitely to tho fact that th3 man or woman who has tuberculosis and expectorates, coughs and sneezes promiscuously and without with-out care in public places is a menace to all of us and our children, will the disease actually act-ually bo Btamped out. A "person can have tuberculosis tubercul-osis and having been Instructed carefully how to act In public, can go anywhere without danger dang-er of any infection to anyone. I And there's the rub. Instruction. Instruc-tion. Beyond the shadow of a doubt tulierculosTs" is curabTeT .Presh air, good, plain, whole-' aome food rightly prepared plenty of sleep fresh air and a3Rs;a)l(oonunon sense and a 4&ijlt vStesj-the advice of'the wbfclftslciaif relative to a)I these matters. These and in a great many cases the pexson who has only a mild attack of the disease can bo cured .in the homo or the back yard. That is one of tho big functions func-tions of the Utah Public Health association. To give specialized specializ-ed advice to the tubercular. We are at tho service of the community. comm-unity. We have literature on the subject and gladly supply It. The executive will be glad to see anyone who desires to discuss dis-cuss the subject And the office is at 120 east First South Street. |