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Show PLEDGE SUPPORT Sa.lt Lake City. October 27 At 'his morning's session of the Fifth annual convention of the Utah Public Pub-lic Health Nurses Association, the following resolution was unnanimous ly adopted: Whereas-, Utah is one of three states which have made no provisions provisi-ons for the care of its tuberculous patients, and in order that our death rate from the disease may be reduced reduc-ed and kpt to the lowest possible minimum, it is necessary that patients pati-ents be removed to a state sanitor-ium sanitor-ium to keep from infecting the well members of their family and the community, and there be given a chance to recover: and Whereas the Utah Public Health association has definitely pledged itself it-self to collect all statistics and data rrom all official and other sources and prescp.' ' same to the next legislature, leg-islature, in support of the passage of a bill providing for the erection of a state sanitorium for the tuberculous, tubercu-lous, with a minimum of one hundred hun-dred beds. I Therefore be it resolved, by the Utah Public Health Nurses association associa-tion in annual convention assembled, that e lend all support to this worthy' wor-thy' move, and that we give service ti the r-ah Public Health associa- :on in its approaching Christmas d-l sMe for raising funds to continue con-tinue its trood work in the state. |