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Show TUBERCULOSIS 1 CLII OPENS 1 Several Persons Appear for Examination on First Day; ffil Offices in City Hall Hi Ogdcn's new tuberculosis dispen- IRm sary opened this morning in the quar- FES 1 tors of the board of health In tho city WEjm hall, with Miss Ida IU. Swartz in dli'oct nflgll charge. The new department haa MHU been installed to work in co-oporation ll'HIS with the board of health, although it 'I ijE9 will ho directed by the Utah Public 1 jBfi Health association, of which Miss jjlBll Swartr, is a member. Examination 'Hf ami treatment of cases of tuberculosis 19 in cases where persons are unable to B31 provide proper medical care through jlBu lack of fund.;, will bo the principal ac- IISu tivlties of tho department, although a HHi campaign of education, seeking ip IHfl stamp out the great white plague In IB Ogdcn. will also be Intensively carried The new department will be open JB every Monday, Wednesday and Friday 9 mornings between the hours of 9 ' H and 12 o'clock, and plans are now be- B ing made to keep the doors open one lfli evening each week. In addition to car- ll rying on the work in the dispensary, jE Miss Swart;: will be at the call of Og- IHH don residents who arc afflicted with kiEl the disease and are unable to leave IB their beds. In U)cse Instances,, .Mi?s jHE Swarlz will make personal calls in the Bfl Indication that the new department JIM will be taken advantage of by the Og- r'fE den public' was made evident this I jHj morning, when several persons ap- -B peared for examination. Physicians k'iB throughout the city wijl co-operate in v--B the movement and will bo ready for '"orVB call to make examinations of patients, ft; or those who exhibit symptoms of the '9H disease. u ?H no r' |