Show Your DOttS DOtt Doctor S Says S T Tin h. h o 0 tn u out one ol o oa 0 a 1 of oI lIeI II by 11 of 01 the Utah s State Slat and d pl o m hi t coo tit o lion with ith It your tOil local total newspaper The modes i art are lo to appear r t u try ah throughout the Ir veer in i en llou elIor lo to b. b bran rOil jou 1 problems poM 0 of heath and d to 10 improve po the It well t nt I of ol du people ol of u Utah Rural Rura Health Heah In Utah Th The term Rural Health Is le not meant to Imply that there Is le one kind of health for city dwellers and anda a It different kind for those thole who live Ie In the more widely dispersed areas arell There are however some differences differ enc In the problems arising In the achieving of 01 Rood good health In rural districts district In the State of 01 Utah most mOlt of f the population centers center In n an un anarea urea area within a radius of seventy seventy- five miles mile of Salt Lake Luke City leavIn leaving leav leave In Ins ing the vast remaining Ileo geographic I on of 01 the State concerned directly or Indirectly with the problem problem lem tern of rural health Some Home of the most mot n notable tab e of 01 the many health problems P confronting the people 0 of the rural areas areal of Utah might be bit listed as al loll follows ow I Procurement of adequate pure pur water ater and milk supply auppl Due to the I many and und varied sources of ot these thele necessities In man many areas steel proper Inspection and control difficult Is Widespread rural areas In Utah continue to use row raw milk an and untested un um tested water While there Is le evidence evidence evi evl dence of an Increasing awareness of the i dangers In using Impure milk and water the problem still presents one of 01 tho mOlt ble bit In the rural health of 01 Utah Sews Sewage SeaRe e disposal Here flere again In Individual In in- family units are die almost a necessity In dispersed districts and the thel possibility f t pollution of streams stream wells well and springs being used for human consumption I. I iea n a constant I threat I Animal borne ll which are ar communicable to 10 human humn hein e such as 81 Tularemia Tularemia Rubles und and others need constant to Isolate ind proper men mea sure taken for their heir their control W Wf cannot be Complacent about this since all nil of of the shove above named h have been dlug- dlug In hI all purl part l of UtaI Uta j I roler mi ear care both preventive pre pr lAne ano therapeutiC therapeutic III II I continuous u problem In In mane man of ot out our m most t flOla Isolated rural areas area 10 To En In n. n duce properly tr trained train doctors and public health curies to locate In Insufficient Insufficient sufficient numbers In the IP sparsely r elv settled sections of our state presents pre pre- presente Benta many Difficulties The Medical Medi cal College of lor the University of lit Utah Is II aware or of this Ihl und and Is do- do a program In which medical medi Cu cal students nearing Marin the end of I their training mil may my be given Iven n u short hort time In rural hospitals where the they might acquaint themselves with the attractions attraction nf of rural practice c Our Out problem nr may ma malot not lot be so much u II shortage of medical and nursing personnel ns nl faulty distribution of our supply Proper Ir er hospital and health center facilities is closely allied with the shortage of operating operating ing In stuff staff Rural Utah Is I. better belter supplied than man many states however In hU this respect education presents many mans associated health problem such lIuch us III transportation to 10 and from schools l. the school lunch program ro ram school health and immunization Immunization tion and ami control of Infectious ills dis ease Dental care cure program pr the management man of or recreation ln and com competitive athletic contests proper nutrition and cloth clothing In ma may be hI added to the Incomplete list of the most m engaging of Utah's rural health problem The American Medical Association Lion tion Is II very concerned about the problems of or rural tural health since every state tate has hal Its It rural arena areas There is I now a permanent Council of 01 Rural Health organized as u a j subdivision of 01 the A. A M. M A. A This Council has a II time full office Ita staff ft and Field Director who pool re resources resources sources material and dispatch In Information In formation and assistance wherever needed or requested The Utah State Association also alIa has hall an active Rural Health Committee which is I. actively engaged In placing physicians In rural areas arens This Thill committee is III represented regularly at the the annual annual an nn nual National Conference on on Rural Health and the the current develop cl developments lolI ments in n this field are brought bark State The Utah Stute State Rural Health Committee works l closely with the Utah State of Health and their Public Health nurses Also Aillo there Is III close working und and coordination with the Extension Service lof of the Utah h 4 Agriculture en College II t There Is now now nw In the proc 1 ess esa of 01 organization cil cis In each within the tile Slate Stute of 01 Utah se membership I It ma mare made e up of of lay IllY HA as well us protes and und civic personnel to to the l set In motion the propel machinery r to bring about the needed health projects on ont I t level eve eve |