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Show i ; ' - ..' Making It Easy to Do Yourself a Favor Ths mass cheat X-ray campaign got under way this week with ths mayor, and members of ths city and sounty commissions commis-sions having their X-rays taken, with business and civic leaders participating in a parade and ths public finally invited to get their X-rays at on of ths 18 units which are scattered around the city and county, r . . It seems little odd that all of this fanfare is necessary in order to persuade people to do something which Is wholly in their own interest. Normally an individual in-dividual would havs to pay a substantial sum for a chest X-ray and subsequent examination of Ue film by a qualified physician able to tell if the X-ray revealed re-vealed tuberculosis or any other ailment. Yet hers ths examination is offered frss of charge to say person IS years of age or older and it- is mad extremely convenient con-venient for the individual, Ths X-ray aeohias are brought to the people. . At aoro time during the period ths machines will bs in ths Sslt Lax area just about every resident will psas by one of the units. Ia a minute or two hs can havs ths X-ray taken and be oa his way. It's free, it's convenient and it's very muck worth while. Ths great majority of those examined wil) have nothing wrong with them; but a few will learn of " unsuspected illness and learn of it in time so that ths trouble can bs corrected. Health authorities who are carrying on this progress, hope to examine 175,000 persons. With sll ths publicity, every resident of the Sslt Lake area should know about ths chest X-ray program. There is really no excuse for anyone fall-ing fall-ing to take advantage of this opportunity to protect himself against possibls future serious illness, perhaps death, resulting from a present unsuspected minor disease dis-ease eonditioa. |