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Show STATE TUBERCULOSIS S1IT1MFI1EI) Dr. S. G. Paul, Health Commissioner, Com-missioner, Discusses Need of Institution. WILL ASK , LEGISLATION Nearly Every Commonwealth in Union Has Place for Treating Disease. A state tiihcrouloslp sanitarium will be earnestly considered by thc coming leg-IMalurc, leg-IMalurc, JT the cfTorts or certain health officers, now advocating thc undertaking, are ciowncd with success. "Such an Institution has become an absolute necessity," said I)r. Samuel G. Paul, city health commissioner, yesterday, yester-day, "and the slate could take no wiser nor more universally beneficial slop than to make the necessary appropriation." Not only from moral or humanitarian eonfildcratlonii, but for tho protection and Kafeguarding of tho public health. It has become Imperative In Utah that the commonwealth com-monwealth rJiall lake official cognizance of thc- ravages of thc white plague, the commissioner believes. With thc ex-oi'ptlnn ex-oi'ptlnn of Idaho and Vermont, (Mali Is the only state In the Union that has not already provided a stale sanitarium whore indigenous cases can be cared for and incipient cases given curative treatment. Many Deaths in Utah. "Hero in Salt Lake score? of deaths have occurred this car from tuberculosis tubercu-losis and do occur every year," Dr. Paul said. "The chances of spreading 'lie disease have- Increased J00 per cent in tho last ten or fifteen years and no additional ad-ditional measures lo copo wllh it have been taken." Dr. Paul said that he Is doing all in his power to Interest state officers in the plan and will undoubtedly succeed in having a bill introduced at tho coming com-ing legislature providing for the construction con-struction of tho sanitarium. There has been much agitation in recent re-cent years along thc- same lines, but tho responsibility has been shunted from stale lo county and from county to city. According to Dr. Paul, tho county would have included plans for a tubercular sanitarium in its new county infirmary had it not been for the fact that Salt Lake county immediately would have had to undertake thc expense of caring for consumptives fiom all parts of the state. The city might have undertaken It but for the same reason. Duty of the State. "The duty lies with the state at large," said Dr. Paul. "Thc original outlay would not have to be large. A. start should bo made at least which would prove a nucleus on which to build in the future. "I am frequently criticised for not enforcing en-forcing the state law prohibiting tubercular tuber-cular persons from working as cooks In restaurants or in bakeries, but I hold that law to bo at fault inasmuch as .it aims to throw the poor unfortunates afflicted af-flicted with the disease out of work and makes no provision to care for them. Many cases exist where If thc law were ou forced the victims would be unable lo make a living, whereas if a. state sanitarium sani-tarium were founded tho danger to the ptibllc from this source could be eliminated elimi-nated and the need of thc individual victim taken care of." |