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Show STATE SANATORIUM OPENINGDISGUSSED Efforts to open the new state tuberculosis santatorium at Ogden soon after February 1 were being made Wednesday by the state board of health. Board members. In a closed meeting, told the Sanatorium Society So-ciety of Utah and "interested persons" per-sons" from Ogden and Salt Lake City that opening of the Institution Institu-tion hsd been delayed pending completion of housing quarters for "key" employes, installation of important equipment and because of a dispute over handling of laundry. laun-dry. State Senator Lawrence E. Nelson Nel-son of Murray acted as spokesman spokes-man for the group seeking an explanation ex-planation of the delay. Dr. Joseph frf Morrell of Ogden, president of the board, explained the health board does not take over control of the sanatorium until un-til It has been released by the state building commission. The board announced the hospital hos-pital can be opened soon after February 1 if there are no objections objec-tions raised ' by organized labor against the laundry work being done by inmates of the state Industrial In-dustrial school, also at Ogden. |