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Show PENW TUBERCULOSIS SEALS ' PROMOTE GOOD HEALTH Five million Tuberculosis Christ- ' mas Seals, enough to provide every I ; TTtoV, nitli ten stamrjs. are bein- distributed throughout the state by the Utah Tuberculosis Association, Associa-tion, j For the past twenty years these nennv Christmas Seals, Sold during December in every state, have been the means of helping stamp out Tuberculosis Tu-berculosis and promiting good health. The success of the campaign has been due to the earnest work of thousands of citizens who give their services freely every year to help organize; and "conduct the seal sale in their communities and who later aid the j state association carry on a definite program. In Utah the Christmas Seal has I done much to promote public health and bring to the public and the individual in-dividual health education in its various vari-ous forms. Last year our efforts were concentrated on child health education, because childhood is the neriod of infection. The Christmas Seals financed a director of child health education who visited school districts and gave service to teachers, children and community groups; assisted as-sisted three school districts to employ school nurses, contributed to a fund to be used to demonstrate the need of a larger free milk fund; helped to finance public health work at the University of Utah; furnished school heaith equipment such as scales, first-aid first-aid kits, etc., to over three hundred schools; distributed free material to school districts and teachers for teaching health; conducted health exhibits ex-hibits and demonstrations. The educational edu-cational campaign against tuberculosis tubercul-osis and the need for a state tuberculosis tuber-culosis sanatorium was continued, and will be the major project for the coming com-ing year. |