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Show r3 Would You Save A Life If You Could? Utah's eighth annual Christmas Seal Sale is on, opening on Thanksgiving Thanks-giving day and continueing until Christmas Eve. When the sale closes, clos-es, the Utah Public Health Association, Associa-tion, under whose auspices the campaign cam-paign is conducted, hopes to have raised the amount Utah has been called upon to contribute to the na-' tion wide fight against tuberculosis, and for its own campaign of education. educa-tion. Of all the states resources, human life Is the most valuuable, and it is Utah's duty to guard the welfare of her citizens even more dilligently than she fosters any commercial or industrial enterprise. . Prevention of disease and maintenance of health are of prime importance to the happiness, hap-piness, prosperity and progress of the human race. One of the most urgent prqblems Utah has to face in protect.ng tho health of its citizens is the prevention preven-tion of tuberculosis. Since the organization or-ganization of the Public Health Association As-sociation eight years ago, there have been 1,355 deaths from tuberculosia In Utah. Each life might have been spared had the afflicted person known how to care for his health in the early stages of the disease. The work of the Utah Public Health Association As-sociation is to supply this information informa-tion by every means possible. This includes nurses, exhibits, clinics, moving pictures, lecturesJ literature and bulletins. 1 The Utah Public Health association is not a charitable institution organized organ-ized to furnish treatment to afflicted afflic-ted persons, but functions solely for the purpose of. education for disease prevention. That this knowledge is the big weapon to combat tuberculosis tuberculo-sis Is demonstrated by the figures of the national fight against the disease. dis-ease. Since the fight became a national nat-ional campaign, under the direction of the National Tuberculosis Association, Associa-tion, the death rate in the United States from the disease has been cut in two. Based on an average which has authorities in various communities, there are at present in Utah 1,565 cases, for it has been demonstrated time and time again, that there are at least nine people in each community commu-nity suffering with the disease to every ev-ery death in that community during the year. This vast loss of life and disability through disease. Is a great financial loss to the state. Every person can do their share in this work of Baving human lives by purchuslng a full quota of Christmas Christ-mas Seals. |