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Show teraciic ; TO TOUR STATE ; TUDERCULO8I8 SPECIALISTS TO VISIT RURAL DI8TRICT8 AND MAKE FREE DIAQNO8I8. Educational Exhibit and Lectures Will Alio Be Feature! of the Undertaklno, But No. Treatments Planned. Tho Utah public Health association, In coopcriWlon with tho state board of health, will send out .' month h traveling clinic which will visit every county In tho 'state nnd take tho mess. 0 of better health direct to the people. Tho clinic is planned especially to roach the smaller rural sections that havo only a limited medical and nursing nurs-ing sendee nnd where the doctrlno of prevention Is practically unknown. Tho primary object of this undertaking undertak-ing Is to bring within tho reach of a large number of persons the opportunity opportu-nity to become Informed of their true phynlcal condition through an examination ex-amination by a physician skilled In diagnosing chest conditions nnd to learn the facts about tuberculosis, tho preventive sldo of which will bo featured fea-tured In the exhibit which will form part of tho hcnltJcnrnvnn. Expert to Be In Charge. A large nutomobllo truck will be (quipped with a commodious body, where full clinical appliances may be I set up, which will bo In charge of an export diagnostician nnd tuberculosis 1 jxpert. Jumcs II. Wnllls, executive ) iccretary of tho association, Is In I correspondence with somo of tho host : known tuberculosis doctors of tho largo eastern cities and sanitariums, r recommended by tho Natlonnl Tuber- miosis association, relative to secur-, secur-, Ing the best qualified person to take , :hurge of the health caravun. A I trained graduate nurse wilt also be n t member of the staff, and this staff Is r planning to co-operate with the local 1 physicians nnd nurses In each commu-3 commu-3 nlty. Lectures and demonstrations will be given In some central locality 1 In each county and consultation and idvlce given free. . Examinations of school children will be made In each community where 9 there Is no public health nurse. Tho ' Importance of child hygiene ns a preventive pre-ventive fenturo of the tuberculosis campaign makes It Imperative that all f physical defects and handicaps be f remedied in children. Atddc from tho clinic nn educational exhibit, Including motion pictures aonllng with health topics, stereoptl- ' con views to Illustrate lectures, various vari-ous chnrta and posters emphasizing 6 child welfare work and pamphlets and 2 literature on the prevention and care of tuberculosis will be given. A com- 0 pleto lighting system will be Installed 7 In tho car so that no phase of the 3 work will bo" hindered by communities 0 having no electric lighting plant. Local preparation will be secured through the co-operation of the county newspapers and any organization, 1 commltteo or individual engaged In health or social work. It Is not In tended to descend oa nny community 1 until tho field has been prepared nnd as large a number of people ns possible encouraged to benefit by the oppor tunlty. Practically a wcok will bi given to ench county, the clinic nnchor- 0 Ing In some central locality and work 0 Ing throughout tho section. All cases, suspects nnd contacts of tuberculosis will bo examined and records kept to assist In tho general stato survey of the disease. No Treatments Planned. To the country nurso tho coming of G tho truvcllng clinic and exhibit will almost mean a now cm In her rural work, for it will mean prompt attention atten-tion to tho many suspected cases that sho has been calling on anu ylng to 3 Impress with the Importance of an early diagnosis. Few persons hnve 1 either the means or the opportunity g to go to specialists in somo far distant dis-tant rlty, nnd It Is for this reason f that tho Utah Public Health assocla 1 tlon and state board of health Is sending the specialist to the people. ; Tho clinic will bo for diagnosis t only. No drugs or treatment will be 1 prescribed, but Instruction will be 3 given tho patient on caring for himself him-self and provoutlng spread of tho Infection In-fection to others. Tho child welfaro features of the clinic will bo carried on by tho nurso. Sho will give practical prac-tical demonstrations on tho care of In-. In-. fnnts. The entire undertaking is mndo possible pos-sible by the money raised through the salo of Christmas seals, and Is planned to bring back to each community In actual service the value of their con-trlbutlon con-trlbutlon to the Christmas seal sals. 0 j Bungalow Aprons 49c at Pooplo's Co-on. n,i |