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Show Page Sixteen FRIDAYSEPTEMBER Association Endorses Transfer Of Patients to Dee Hospital Sclerosis Society TB The establishment of a tuberculosis unit in the Dee Hospital in Ogden to care for Utahs tuberculosis patients has been endorsed by the Utah Tuberculosis and Health Assn., Mason Smith, president, Salt Lake City, said this week. The Association, acting in the interest of the tuberculosis patients and the citizens conducted an investigation of the facilities and sendees to be offered by the Dee Hospital tuberculosis ward, Mr. Smith said. On the basis of that evaluation the board of directors voiced endorsement of the State Wei-for- e Commissions actions to transfer tuberculosis care facilities from the present hospital in Ogden to the Dee Hospital, he said. Such a move will be bene-fic- gation. It was noted that tuberculosis treatment is getting more medically complex. Therefore, an initial period of hospitalization is recommended for almost every case of active tuberculosis and a central facility is needed for efficient management of the disease. The Committee also recommended the transfer of the hospital jurisdiction from the welfare department to the stpte . i health department in order that the program may be unified in one department. Mr. Smith said the association observed that service at the Dee THE SALT LAKE TIME. 23, 1966 Wildlife Federation Announces Conservation Achievement Goal Awards $19,090 To U. Professor Dr. Pasquale A. Cancilla, assistant professor of Neurology and Pathology at the University of Utah College of Medicine has been awarded a grant of $19,090 by the national Multiple Sclerosis Society for research. The one year grant is one of 52 such grants being made by the Society in this country and abroad. The Society has agreed to make a second, $20,000 grant at the end of the first year, provided funds are available. Mrs. G. W. Black, president of the Utah State Chapter of the M.S. Society presented the check to Dr. Cancilla, together with Dr. Kenneth B. Castleton, Dean it is being A statewide program designed more important, recognize outstanding accomplishments by individuals and rganizations in the wise use of Jtahs natural resources was announced this week by the Utah Wildlife Federation. Known as ;o the 1966 Governors Conservation Achievement Program, the special project is part of a nationwide conservation education effort of the National Wildlife rederation and its state affiliates k and is sponsored by the Sears-Roebuc- Foundation. con- ducted to teach others, by precept and example, how they might take a more active role in promoting the wise use and management of Utahs natural resources our soil, waters, fish and wildlife. The program will honor individuals or organizations in ten categories: State Conservationist of the Year, Wildlife, Soil, Water or Air Pollution Control, Forest, Youth, Education, Legislative, Communication and Organization. State winners will receive trophies consisting of unique statuettes of symbolic species of our American wildlife. They will be publicly recognized at a special Recognition Meeting to be held in Salt Lake City later in the In announcing the 1966 program for Utah, a sequel to the successful Governors Conservation Awards Program last year, T. C. Koziol, president of Utah Wildlife Federation, said, The program is designed to recog-lizoutstanding accomplishment in the cause of conservation but year. of the medical college, in a ceremony at the Medical Center. Dr. Cancillas research aims e at producing a copper deficiency in the body at a time when the both to the tuberculosis panervous system is developing, in tient and to the citizens of Utah order to study the effect of such whose tax funds support the a deficiency on the development port from the veteran Meadow prevention and treatment of tuof myelin and cells of the ner- Success of Course Brook golfers when a successor berculosis. vous system. to Riley was to be selected. He said, Actually such a move Certain naturally occurring Depends on Pro Nolan Wathen came to the has been planned for several diseases and some experimental success of a golf course The staff in February, years. With the 'modernization the concept that linges upon the golf professional county golf models support of tuberculosis treatment which 1965, brought plenty of know trace metals are necessary for who oversees it. Talk to any how with him. He had held the has cut the average hospital stay maintenance and formation the ocal and tell you golfer theyll of head pro at the Pocafrom two years to six months the said. ' of the nervous system and that ;hat Salt Lake County employs position deThe number of cases is not Country Club for 9 years. day was forecast when it would of these important two of the areass finest golf tellodirected a deficiency He the development of be desirable to transfer a TB creasing as it used to, but has elements can result in heads Nolan who Wathen, pros. the Riley links and will soon be treatment from a large 100 bed leveled off, and indeed has innew Mick Golf the Riley ip sanatorium into a smaller hos- creased in some areas. Since operating out of the almost coma is Sclerosis Course and Meadow Jim Multiple Healy, pleted club house at that layout. pital unit. The State Welfare one hospital bed will now do disease. The of Brooks myelin the pro, type typify Both of these men are excelten beds what four did Commission, in order to be preyears sheath which protectively covers dedication which means a better pared for that future eventuality ago, fewer total beds are needed. the nerve fibers, disintegrates. It golfing world for all concerned. lent instructors, and have surrounded themselves with an exasked the state tuberculosis asActually, it is reliably esti- is replaced by scar tissue thus Both are and pos- cellent staff. young, poised sociation in 1962 to make recom- mated that 10 per cent of the nerve normal with backsess the and interfering knowledge inmendations on the bes method people in Utah are presently The cause is unknown. ground which every business for future care and treatment of fected, with tuberculosis, and by impulses. MS is a great crippler of young seeks. Theyre personable and tuberculosis patients. carrying the germs in their body adults, often producing paralysis approachable. The enthusiasm are at risk of breaking down After intensive study, a sensation and may which each carries for the game loss of and committee representing with active, lung destroynig tu- affect several or all functions rubs off onto those they serve. various medical, welfare, hos- berculosis. Because of the crop of LIKE MAD? movement and vision, speech, basa former cases comes of recnew Healy, each and collegiate health year interests, pital Get this doctor's formula! ketball star, has been head pro ommended that when feasible, from people who were infected balance. Zemo speedily stops torment of to Mrs. Black, there at the Taylorville course for the tuberculosis patients should be earlier in their life, periodic tu- areAccording caused itching... of victims an externally estimated 500,000 two years. Under his guidpast transferred to a tuberculosis berculin tests or chest eczema, minor skin irritations, the United States, and about ance the course has continued insect bites. Desensitizes unit in a general hospital to be are recommended for every man, in 175 in Utah. to attract more and and nerve grow woman and child. selected after study and investiendings. Kills millions of surThe research grant is the first more golfers. Jim has served as skin with h face germs. to be made in Utah by the na- assistant pro under the late Mick Zemo Liquid or Ointment and reflects Riley and received strong sup tional housing, breeding and research success organization, Ground is Broken of local MS efforts of the related to all types of experi- officials in convincing the Somental animals from dogs, pigs, For New U. of U. cietys grant committee of the monkeys and frogs, turtles and value of their investing Society Medical Facility salamanders. Cages and pens for a Utah ' Ground has been broken for the larger animals are spacious, funds in the work of professor, following the Vivarium of the University and include heated outdoor runs. University to a visit the area in 1965 by of Utah Medical Center. The Special facilities for cold blood A plague comes on us at this time every year that afflicts about Sylvia Lawry, executive director $465, SCO facility will serve as a animals contain temperature de- of of one amount out of every 20 men, women and children. It will be most torThe the Society. central animal facility for the vices which will keep them com- the between now and the first real frost. twice more that menting than grant is Do College of Medicine, and will fortable and enable them to keep of the recognize the symptoms? Tearful, red eyes; itching, you annual budget of the Utah stuffed provide the finest possible care their normal metabolism. nose; bleary, watery look; repeated, loud sneezes. up Chapter, which receives its funds the and attention for all types of According to Dr. Kenneth B. from of allergic rhinitis, known as hay or rose symptoms Theyre the Salt Lake area United fever, although the allergy has nothing to do with roses or hay, and animals necessary for teaching Castleton, dean of the medical The grant award indicates there isnt any fever. and research at the hillside in- school ,the Vivarium will incor- Fund. Uniton return a the substantial There is no cure for hay fever. institution. Sources of funds porate all of the latest architec- ed Funds investment in the Utah But temporary relief from hay clude the National Institutes of tural and humane consideration fever one which will and MS symptoms can be obtained Chapter, Health, Division of Research of the finest laboratory animal repeat from antihistamines, such as research 1967 when the in Facilities and Resources and Max care. A full time graduate vetercold capsules, and deCorbay-financed C. Flcischmann Foundation of inarian will be in charge of the projects second year is congestant eye drops like Visine, MS Society. the national by that soothe irritation and are assisted be and will Reno, Nevada, and all private facility by added Mrs. that the Black available at drugstores. The best' sources. ah able staff of men qualified to a as United Utah State source of help is your physician Chapter, Haslam Construction Company specialty of laboratory animal 68 volunteer has Fund Agency, of Salt Lake City was the low care as set forth by the national workers under the direction of bidder on the project, which Animal Care Panel. the Executive Secretary, Mrs. will be located just east of the Lydia Alder Bean, of Salt Lake Medical Centers Cancer Re- Beware of Old City. The volunteer workers search Wing. Construction time work closely with patients duris estimated at 10 months, or Medicine Bottles in social that occupancy is expected by Two women, one aged 22 and ing the year visits andaffairs, therthe middle of the summer, 1967. the other 26, fell seriously ill transportation, Material removed in the exca- not long ago with symptoms apy. The national MS Society has vation is being deposited along that included excessive thirst, research medical Leeches war used for blooding, ofton until Medical Drive a few yards to weakness, lethargy and consti- sponsored and tho patient was nearly dead from weakness. $5,613,879, grants totaling the west, and directly opposite pation. Both had to be hospital- fellowships totaling $650,809, Serious complications can re the University Hospitals Emer- ized and then treated for con- since its founding by Mrs. Lawry from hay fever, including suit gency Service entrance, to build siderable lengths of time. One in 1946. It presently supports 56 asthma. So if you even think you up an area being developed as patient was still in treatment clinics and clinical programs in have hay fever, consult your a heliport. When completed, the a year after the onset of her physician. the U.S., one of which is located area will facilitate the landing illness. Some of the strange cures at the University of Utah the centuries are re- In tho 18th century. to of helicopters bringing injured In each case, according phy, through water bath vealed book- were recommended as sura cures for hay fever. a in new Servfascinating to Alfred the sicians affiliated the with Emergency persons let called, Mow Down Hay Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes ice, which presently have to Einstein School of Medicine in Fever. The booklet is free, as k gave the classic hay fever cure. New York City, the almost cer- year and a half. The doctors land on the adjacent four-lan- e service from Coryban-He was asked. Is there any public tain cause of the distress was an warn that drugs that have been highway. Consumer .Services, Roerig Divi- cure for hay fever? The single story, 22,065 square outdated antibiotic. Several such in the medicine cabinet for some sion of Chas. Pfizer & Co., 235 E. Yes, he replied. "Gravel , . , 42nd St York 10017. foot Vivarium will be used for cases have occurred with the past time be checked before use. taken about 8 f?et deep. al Hospital may even be better than at the present sanatorium because of more adequate ancillary staffing. We wish to emphasize that the closing of the Ogden TB Sanatorium is a well planned part of the eradication effort. The Stat eWelfare Commission is to be commended for its action. The great danger in this move is that he public may think tuberculosis is no longer a public or family health; problem, he demy-elinatio- n. demy-elinati- ng ITCHING 12-mem- ber x-ra- ys non-poisono- De-itc- , OLD HAY FEVER CUBES D Ice-col- D d us |