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Show (Cedar City matron I named to Utah I Tuberculosis board I I Mrs. McRay Cloward, Cod; j City, was elected to membe J ship on the Board of Director j of the Tuberculosis and Re Ispiratory Disease Association of Utah, it was announced bj Lyman Smart, Bountiful, pre sident. Mrs. Clcward will serve f a three year term as Repre I sentative Director of lro. Beaver, Wshington, Kane an I Gariield counties. She wa I elected at the annual meeting I in Salt Lake City last week. At the same meeting, th. Christmas Seal Assn. change its name from the Utah Tubei culosis & Health Association I The name now includes Koi piratory Disease to give grca. er identification of its maji.. work, and to conform wit. the name of the national or ganization. Smart said at the annua meeting that nine cases o. tuberculosis have been report ed in Utah during the fir.;; three months of 1971. Thai compares with five cases s. year ago. The cases occurec in patients whose ages rang from nine to 75 years. The Christmas Seal Assoc iation also includes in its primary targets, chronic res piratory disease (emphysema and chronic bronchitis,) cigarette ci-garette smoking, and air pollution. |