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Show I UTAH IS DECLARED I GREAT HEALTH I CENTER I HALT LAKE. Oct. 4. "With tho I natural advantages, belonging , to. I Utahclimate, educational faclll- ,tlc8 housing conditions and the ab- sence of any tenement, districts this state has every opportunity for' I setting the record In public health," I 'declared Otto F. Bradley, field or-I or-I ranlzcr for the Natlonol Tuberculosis 'association, who arrived In Salt Lake Mt last night to confer with the local 'Q' 'committees' 'of ' the Utah Public 'Healthassociation ion the : Christmas seal Bale. Sir. DraUloy has had extensive experience ex-perience in organizing tho Christmas seal sales throughout tho country, Last .year ho conducted, the sale for Minnesota, doubllrfg the quota of tho previous year.. Ho will' assist In organizing or-ganizing th Intermountaln and Paclf-ic Paclf-ic coast states for the 1920 sale, which he dec la res, Is expected to surpass all previous records. As a membobf tho Ited ossChhhhh As a, .member of ho Ited Cross tuberculosis commission to Italy during dur-ing tho war Mr, Bradley was lnsjrur. mental In Introducing public health work In that country "and aided In securing tho appointment of public health nurses, "Tho Christmas seal salo Is the biggest business enterprise In the country," Mr. Bradley declared. "It Is of Importance primarily as an educational ed-ucational campaign; secondarily as a financial campaign. It sells better health to the entire community through, first, institutions, such as sanatorlal clinics, community nurses and second, through personal sacrifice. sacri-fice. This personal sacrifice consists in a rigid living up to health habits and 'a continued fight, against unhealthy un-healthy conditions In the community. "The work of the tuberculosis as- fsoclatlan saves the most important I people In the community, for while the greatest death rate from, other L souses. Infant mortality for instance strikes the pcoplo either of a very early or a very old age, 'tuberculosis takes Its toll from tho most productive produc-tive age. The Christmas seal sale combats this death rato by promoting promot-ing health education and by supplying supply-ing means for tho furthering of hotter hot-ter health." Though this Is the. first trip Mr. Bradley has mado to the west, he counts among his personal friends a Utah man, Wesley E. King, presldont of the Rotary dug. who was a classmate class-mate of Mr. Brodloy. ' Sir, Bradley expects to leave Salt Lako tomorrow for San Francisco. |