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Show practicing physician residing in the commun'.'ty, as health officer with the mayor as president and the chief of police or town marshal mar-shal as quarantine officer. Each of these are generally underpaid' and overworked, the physician often sacrificing a substantial part of his practice to the de-mands de-mands of public health. The State Board of Health is now giving its utmost support to town and county boards of health, through its own public health doctors, Ms sanitary engineers, engi-neers, its nurses and inspectors. Its ten divisions are all at the service of town, city and county boards. Since this cooperative practice was inaugurated by Dr. J. l, Jones, state health commissioner both city and county officials-have officials-have been most commendatory, realizing that with state support in an active way, local enforcement enforce-ment of sanitary regulations would be made much more effective. More Cooperation Possible Now In Health Set-Up "In the last few years and particularly par-ticularly the past few months, a keener cooperation between state and city boards of health has been made possible," states Dr. Lloyd M. Farner, director of health district number four. Safeguarding the health of half a million people is a big job in itself, and when that task is made heavier .by the great extent of a sta,te covering 84,990 square miles and hundreds of communities, communi-ties, just what the work entails is better understood. Lack of finances in towns and cities oi Utah, resulting from great areas of desert, mountain and salt lands and water incapable incap-able of producing income from taxes, makes the organization of adequate boards of health in each community almost impossible. Yet these smaller communities are required by law to set up some sort of health protection organization, or-ganization, which consists of a |