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Show Rheumatic Fever Campaign Scheduled February 6-14 In view of the fact that Rheumatic Fever and it's attendant disabilities are crippling many Utah children, child-ren, a concerted effort will be made in Springville to raise the town's full quota in the annual Rheumatic Fever drive during the week of February 6 to 14. , Mayor Proclaims Week Mayor Edward Clyde has designated desig-nated the week in formal proclamation procla-mation and urges cooperation of citizens in combating this dread disease. Funds derived during the drive are used to educate people on how to avoid the disease and render assistance to lessen heart damage to those who already have it. This non-profit campaign also assists in raising funds with which to support a recently established convalescent home for care of patients pa-tients recovering from the disease. To assist with collecting funds for the campaign, little envelopes will be distributed in the schools and in them boys and girls will put their contributions for rheumatic rheu-matic fever as well as for polio and cancer. Thirty five percent of the funds collected in the envelopes will go to the rheumatic fever fund; 35 per cent to the polio fund and 30 per cent to cancer. Chairmen Named Mrs. Grant Thorn and Dr. Robert Ro-bert Jenkins have been appointed chai'mon of the drive in Springville Spring-ville and are this week asking that everyone do as much as they can for this most worthy cause. Utah county now has a convalescing conval-escing hospital for patients recovering recov-ering from rheumatic fever, at the home of Mrs. Eva Warner in Orem. It is designed especially for children and has eight beds. It serves the people of this section of the state while the only other hospital of this kind is at Bountiful Boun-tiful to serve the northern section. Another step taken to combat the disease and the ill effect resulting re-sulting from it. was the appointment appoint-ment recently by the Utah County Coun-ty Medical Society of three doctors doc-tors to take tests and mark observations ob-servations of the disease. These doctors are: Dr. Thomas Judd of Spanish Fork,; Dr. B. J. Larson of Lehi and Dr. Don C. Merrill of Provo. |