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Show Officer Reports On Christmas Seal Campaign At a recent meeting of the Utah County TB and Health Assn. in Provo, Dr. Eddie F. Barr, re-elected president, reported re-ported that a total of $5463.32 was collected from Christmas seals in the 1957 campaign. He urged the goal be increased to $25,000 this year. With the money, 4300 children child-ren in the county received tuberculin tu-berculin tests; another 113 persons per-sons received free, hospital X-rays of the chest; food handlers including those in school lunch were X-rayed or received skin tests and routine rou-tine chest X-rays were made of welfare recipients and of family members in contact with TB patients, it was stated.' sta-ted.' Dr. Barr in urging an increased in-creased goal said it would provide pro-vide for an increased case-finding case-finding program to include the purchase of a small film X-ray unit to be installed in the proposed pro-posed city-county health building build-ing or at the Utah Valley hospital hos-pital where Utah county people could be X-rayed free. , He said $1000 had already been set aside for the unit and an additional $5000 was needed need-ed for the unit plus $5000 a year, for its operation. The program would also include purchase of sound films and projector to educate people in the dangers of the disease. At present there are five such films. The health education program would also include films to educate the people on the dangers of narcotics, including in-cluding barbiturates, alchoho-lics alchoho-lics and tobacco. Other expenses involved in the program would include the association's percentage to the state and national organizations organiza-tions for research, rehabilitation- of county patients and secretarial sec-retarial work. Salary expenses last year was $1000. Other officers of the county assn. beside Dr. Barr, are: Dr. E. G. Dixon and Frank Dain, Provo, vice-presidents; Herma Holt, Provo, secretary; Anna J. Hansen, Pleasant Grove, executive ex-ecutive secretary; John Keith Hayes, Provo, treasurer. Directors Direc-tors are from various cities in the county with Mrs. Clara J. Sumsion, representing Springville. |