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Show RED UMT SUE DISCUSSED Plan of Campaign Outlined at Public Health Association Asso-ciation Meeting. Plans for the sale of Red Cross Christmas Christ-mas seals to obtain tho fund of $25,000 to be used in fighting the spread of tuberculosis tu-berculosis in Utah was the principal topic of discussion at the annual, meet-Ing meet-Ing of the directors of the Utah Public Health association yesterday afternoon at the Hotel Utah. The plan of campaign as outlined by C. M. Patton, New York City, who is regional seal director of the northwestern northwest-ern states with headquarters at Portland, Port-land, Ore., and John V. Jacobs, executive execu-tive secretary of the Utah Public Health association, calls for the organization of committees in each county of the state to handle the seals in their respective counties. The stamps will be on sale this year from December 1 to December Decem-ber 10, the sale in Utah coming just at the close of the national advertising campaign which will be started shortly by the American Red Cross, with which the association is cooperating. The need for a larger budget this year was pointed out by reports of the executive ex-ecutive secretary, Mr. Jacobs, and the city and county nurses. Mr. Jacobs' s report covers In detail the work done by the association last year, which included a survey of nursing nurs-ing work in Tin tic. Tooele and Utah counties. The survey showed the need of public health nurses, which the organization or-ganization plans to supply this year. It also included the work done bv the "Modern Health crusade," inst ituted in the public schools last year; work done during the influenza epidemic, statistics on the deaths from tuberculosis throughout through-out the state, and efforts made to obtain ob-tain legislation to provide county hospitals. hos-pitals. A change in the by-laws of the organization organi-zation to permit each county to form, upon local request and upon the sanction of the executive committee, a committee to carry on local work, with a director of the state organization as chairman, was ! ratified. Another change was made which I increased the executive committee from seven to fifteen mem hers. The session last night followed a ban-quet ban-quet of public health workers. E. O. j Howard acted as chairman, and in introducing intro-ducing Dr. Beatt y. who officiated as ! toastmaster, declared the work of the j Utah Public lealth association was to improve sanitary conditions of the state. |