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Show CONVENTION OF HEALTH WORK-KliS WORK-KliS TO 1SK HELD OCTOBER 21ST Great interest is centered in the program prepared for the eighth annual an-nual meeting of the Utah Public Health Association, which will be held this year in the Hotel Utah on Wednesday, October 21st. It is hoped hop-ed that having this meeting the day before the opening of the Utah Education Edu-cation Association, many of the teachers and school people generally will attend and get the benefit of the talks to be given. The morning's program will be in the nature of a symposium on the absorbing subject, "Safeguarding the Health of the Child." The speakers will be Ruth Ward Mumford, R. N. Community Nurse, Provo; Gerda M. Jacobson, R. N. Dee Memorial Hospital, Hospi-tal, Ogden; Dr. Jane Skofield, chairman chair-man Health Section, Utah Federation of Women's Clubs; Mrs. Saidie Orr-Duubar, Orr-Duubar, Portland, Oregon. This latter lat-ter speaker will deal with the teaching teach-ing of health habits to the school child, on which subject she is a national na-tional authority. The luncheon will be presided over by Dr. George Thomas, President of the University of Utah. Two years ago it was called the "Get Acquainted" Acquaint-ed" luncheon. Last year it was known as the "Keep Acquainted" luncheon. This year it is called the "Keep Together" luncheon. Each year about one-hundred health and social workers enjoy the luncheon program, which for this year is as follows: Talk, "The Gentle Art of Dying Old," Dwight S. Anderson, New York City; "Attacking the Tuberculosis Tub-erculosis Program," Mrs. Saidie Orr-Dunbar, Orr-Dunbar, Portland, Oregon. In the afternoon Dr. M. M. Critch-low, Critch-low, of the U. S. Veteran's Bureau will discuss, "Obstacles in the Early Diagnosis of Tuberculosis," with Dr. L. E. Vico telling of "The Tuberculosis Tubercul-osis Situation in Utah." George Albert Al-bert Smith, chairman of the State Tuberculosis Committee, will speak on "Paving the Way for a State Tuberculosis Tub-erculosis Sanatorium," while Senator LeRoy Dixon of Provo will handle the subject, "Knocking at the Door of the Legislature." Other speakers at the afternoon session will be -A. C. Rees, of the Utah Associated Industries, on "Industries, "In-dustries, on "Industry and Tuberculosis;" Tubercul-osis;" M. S. WMnder, secretary of the Utah State Farm Bureau, on "Relation "Rela-tion of the Farm Bureau to Rural Health Work." The closing talk will be a corker, "Selling Health," by Dwight S. Anderson of New York City, a national newspaper writer. The -Salt Lake. Opera Quintette will furnish a splendid musical program pro-gram at both sessions and at the luncheon. The convention is open to everyone, every-one, and a cordial invitation is ex-tSfided ex-tSfided to all interested in public Vjalth, and especially in the campaign cam-paign against tuberculosis, and the protection of the health of the child. |