Show HEALTH CLINIC TO TOUR STATE tuberculosis specialists TO VISIT RURAL DISTRICTS AND MAKE FREE DIAGNOSIS F educational exhibit and lectures lecture will also be features of tho the undertaking but no treatments planned the utah public health association in operation cooperation co with will the state board of benith will send out next nest mon month th a traveling clinic which will visit every county in the lie state and take the message ot of better health direct to tile the people the clinic is planned especially to reach the smaller rural sections that have only a limited medical and nursing service and where the doctrine of prevention Is practically unknown the primary object of this undertaking Is to bring within the reach ol of a largo number of pers persons ns the opportunity to become informed ol of their true physical condition through an examination by a physician skilled in diagnosing chest conditions find and to learn the facts about tuberculosis the preventive bentive slue side of which will be featured in the exhibit which will form foria ft a part of the health caravan expert to be in charge A large automobile truck will be equipped with a commodious body where full clinical appliances may be bet up which will be in cohr c of an expert diagnostician and tuberculosis expert james 11 II wallis executive secretary of the association is ig in n correspondence with some of 0 the best known tuberculosis doctors of the large eastern cities and sanitariums recommended by the national tuberculosis association relative to securing tho the best qualified person to take achna charge ge of the health caravan A trained graduate nurse will also ile be a member of the staff and this staff Is planning to operate cooperate co with the local P physicians and nurses in each community nit y lectures and demonstrations will be given in some central locality in each county and consultation and advice given free examinations of school children will be made in each community where there there is no public health nurse the importance of child hygiene as a preventive feature of the tuberculosis Is C campaign pa ign makes it imperative that all physical defects and handicaps be remedied in children aside from the clinic an educational exhibit including motion pictures ures dealing with health topics stereopticon views to illustrate lectures lecture various charts and posters emphasizing child welfare work and pamphlets and literature on the prevent loa aud and care of tuberculosis will lie given A complete lighting system will be installed in the car so 0 o that no coi phase of tile the work will vill be hindered by communities having no electric lighting plant local preparation will be secured ulea iri the operation cooperation co o of atthe the county newspapers and any organization committee or individual en engaged aged in health or voclav iclal work itis not intended to descend on an any community until the field has boon been prepared and a as largo large a number of people as possible encouraged to lo benefit by the opportunity practically a week will be given to each county the clinic anchoring n in some central locality nud and worl work I 1 ing throughout tile the section soc tion all cases suspects and contacts of tuberculosis will be examined and records kept to assist in the general state survey of the disease no treatments planned to the country nurse the lie coming of the traveling clinic and exhibit will almost mean a new era in her ber rural work for it will mean prompt attention to the many suspected cases caser that she has boon been calling on and trying to impress with the importance of an early diagnosis few persons have elther cither the means meang or the opportunity to go to specialists in some tar far distant city and it Is for this reason that the utah public health association ani and state board of health Is sending tile the specialist to the people the clinic will be for diagnosis only no drugs or treatment will be prescribed but instruction will be given tile the patient on caring tor for himself and preventing spread of the infection to others the child welfare features of the clinic will be carried on by the nurse she will give practical demonstrations on the care of ts the entire undertaking Is made possible by the money raised through the sale of christmas seals and Is planned to bring back to each community in actual service the value of their contribution trib ution to the christmas seal al sale |