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Show HEALTH CLINIC TO TOUR STATE TUBERCULOSIS SPECIALISTS TO VISIT RURAL DISTRICTS AND MAKE FREE DIAGNOSIS. Educational Exhibit and Lectures Will Also Be Features of the Undertaking, But No. Treatments Planned. The Utah public Health association. In co operation with the state board of health, will send out next month a traveling clinic which will visit every county in the state and take the meSMiije of better health direct to the people. The clinic is planned especially to reach the smaller rural sections that have (inly a limited medical and nursing nurs-ing service und where the doctrine of prevention is practically unknown. The primary object of this undertaking undertak-ing is to bring within the reach of a large number of persons the opportunity opportu-nity to become informed of their true physical condition through an examination ex-amination by a physician skilled in diagnosing chest conditions and to learn the facts about tuberculosis, the preventive side of which will be featured fea-tured in the exhibit which will form a part of the health caravan. Expert to Be in Charge. A large automobile truck will be equipped with a commodious body, where full clinical appliances may be set up, which will be In charge of an expert diagnostician aud tuberculosis expert. James H. Wallis. executive secretary of the association, is In correspondence with some of the best known tuberculosis doctors of the large eastern cities and sanitariums, recommended by the National Tuberculosis Tuber-culosis association, relative to securing secur-ing the best qualified person to take charge of the health caravan. A trained graduate nurse will also be a member of the staff, and this staff is planning to co-operate with, the local physicians and nurses in each community. commu-nity. Lectures and demonstrations will be given in some central locality in each county and consultation and advice given free. Examinations of school children will be made in each community where there is no public health nurse. The Importance of ehild hygiene as a preventive pre-ventive feature of the tuberculosis campaign makes it imperative that all physical defects and handicaps be remedied in children. Aside from the clinic an educational exhibit, including motion pictures dealing with health topics, stereopti-con stereopti-con views to illustrate lectures, various vari-ous charts and posters emphasizing child welfare work and pamphlets ami literature on the prevention and car of tuberculosis will be given. A complete com-plete lighting system will. he installed In the car so -that no phase of the work will be hindered by communities having no electric lighting plant. Local preparation will be secured through the co-operation of the county newspapers and any organization, committee or individual engaged in health or social work. It is not intended in-tended to descend on any community until the field has been prepared and as large a number of people as possible encouraged to benefit by the opportunity. oppor-tunity. Practically a week will be given to eacli county, the clinic anchor ing in some central locality and working work-ing throughout the section. All cases, suspects and contacts of tuberculosis will be examined and records kept to assist in the general state survey of the dls-ease. No Treatments Planned. To the country nurse the coming of the traveling clinic and exhibit will almost mean a new era in lu?r rural work, for it will mean prompt attention atten-tion to the many suspected cases that she has been calling on and trying to Impress with the importance of an early diagnosis. Few persons have either the means or the opportunity to go to specialists in some far distant dis-tant city, and it is -for this reason that the T'tah Public Health association associa-tion and state board of health Is sending the specialist to the people. The clinic will he for diagnosis only. No drugs or treatment will be prescribed, but instruction will be given the patient on caring fur himself him-self and preventing spread of the infection in-fection to others. The child welfare features of the clinic will be carried on by the nurse. She will give practical prac-tical demonstrations on the care of Infants. In-fants. ' The entire undertaking Is made possible pos-sible by the money raised through the sale of Christmas seals, and Is planned to bring back to each community in actual servlre the value of thetr contribution con-tribution to the Christmas sea sale. |