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Show Coordinating Council Considers Sanitation And Adult Education The Community Coordinating Council considered problems In city sanitation and adult education during dur-ing their November meeting which was held last Thursday. The meeting meet-ing was presided over by the chairman, chair-man, William, Snow, who called for reports from the various chairmen of health interests. Mrs. Alice Wood gave the report from the Infantile Paralysis Committee, Com-mittee, in which she stated that the quota for the coming campaign ts set at $2,000 in Iron county. In reporting re-porting from the Cancer Control Committee Mrs. Matilda Blederman urged that early care be the guiding factor in the educational service of this committee and stated that their quota was set at $750. Miss Larue La-rue Ford reported from the Tuberculosis Tubercu-losis Control Committee, stating that funds received from the Christmas Christ-mas Seal Sale were used for X-rays, transportation and educational services. Sixty per cent of the seal sale donation is kept In each county for Its own use. Sheldon Olds, President of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, reported re-ported on the fly-control campaign cam-paign which that organization has sponsored during the past several summers. He stated that It was now their aim to have the city take over responsibility for future fly-control fly-control campaigns with an em-pasls em-pasls on adequate law enforcement regarding clean corrals throughout the city. He recommended that a full-time sanitarian for the community com-munity could help solve many problems' pro-blems' that have existed over a long period of tune. Wallace Osborne, chairman of the City Board of Health, then reported re-ported on their problems concurring concurr-ing at once with Mr. Olds' suggestion sugges-tion regarding a full-time sanitarian. sani-tarian. Mr. Osborne reported that regular Inspection of cafes had been part of the work of the city Board of Health and that while local cafes are not graded A, B, and C, most of them have lived up to a good standard stand-ard but that In a few instances It had been necessary to request cleaner kitchens and proper washroom wash-room facilities. He commended the improvement In handling the city garbage and stated that it was a (Coil tinned on Back Page) Coordinating Council (Continued from Front Pace) I difficult undertaking to properly handle the collection of city garbage. gar-bage. Some improvements have yet to be made at the city dump yard, and In collection from business busi-ness houses. He praised highly the strict enforcement en-forcement of quarantine laws in Cedar City during the past two years and cited figures to show how communicable diseases hud been held In check due to caution in quarantining such cases. Dr. L. V. Broadbent, city physician then explained ex-plained the quarantine law stating that the family physician is charged with the responsibility of reporting communicable diseases at once. Glen Sagers, sanitarian for the Public Health department, gave a review of the various health ordinances ordin-ances of the city. Following a discussion of community com-munity health needs it was decided decid-ed that tiie Health Council, together togeth-er with various Public Health officials, offi-cials, should meet to draw up a definite statement in writing as to how the organized groups in Cedar City can help to bring about proper law enforcement and Influence public pub-lic opinion to the extent that more of our citizenry will feel a responsibility respon-sibility in keeping their own premises prem-ises clean. It was agreed that the Coordinating Council should meet again within a month and further discuss this problem. Such a meeting meet-ing has been set for Friday, December Decem-ber 5. Attention was then turned to a discussion of Adult Education classes. clas-ses. C. B. Cooley, chairman of Adult Education, explained that question-aires question-aires would be distributed throughout through-out the month offering various types of classes In family life education edu-cation such as Learning to Sew, Feeding the Family, Guiding the School Age Child, etc. There will also be offered courses In Elementary Elemen-tary Typing, Current Affairs, Ladles Gymnastics and Spanish if enough people make the request. In order to hold a class ten or more people must come regularly. Classes will open the first week In January and close the last week of March. All those wishing to register who do not receive a questlonaire may get one by calling the P.T.A. president, Mrs. Ina Glvan or the committee sec- retary, Mrs. Mildred Sargent. The Parent-Teacher Association is cooperating coop-erating In the distribution of these questionalres. |