Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-07-02 | Page 21 | Health Clinic Report Given

HEALTH CLINIC REPORT GIVEN T raveling Organization Meets With Success in State Tour t S peotal DlKpateh SALT LAKE, July 1 gome interesting inter-esting facts have beon developed in the report JUS( compiled by Miss Em ma I', Browne, supervising horde of the Utah public Health association, with refer. n" to tnS activities of the Traveling Health Clinic from August. 16, 1321. to June ::u, 1022. In that period over "M.Ono mips have been covered in the state and 52 cities and towns visited. The number of physical ; examinations made at ths Clinic have been, adults 2040, children 7 L 7 'J . a total to-tal of MM. Besides this number examined, ex-amined, 4,200 additional people have visited the clinic. Chere have been 819 health meetings held, while the health "movies" and slides have been HhOWh on 120 different occasions. 03,-742 03,-742 people, having attended these mietinga. AMSISTANCI, (dVKA. Seventy-three jvhysicians in de towns visited have attended nnd assisted assist-ed In the ollnlc, and 18 graduate nurses gave their entire time. Serving In the capacity of registrars, hostesses hostes-ses nnd history writers, 131 ladies in the communities visited donated their services with the clinic. The Clinic truck, carrying surgical supplies and clinic equipment, exhibits, films, etc., has traveled 14,685 miles. The personnel person-nel of the clinic consulted of nine persons, per-sons, 5 physicians from the federal governmenc. and three nurses and the 'In M'l,.,i.il .1 ire. ( oi f I ii. mo d by the Utah Public Health association. MANY TREATED. Through the severest weather the work of the clinic went on. und often the clinic auto end other cars used by the clinic personnel plowed either through mud or snow to keep up with the Itenerary mapped out, so as not to dlaiappolni the people. In most of the places where the clinic operated It ft a been "swamped" with business, people coming to it by hundreds dally for examination ex-amination and advice, and to see the splendid health exhibits carried and displayed In connection with the cllnfc In fact, so Intense has been the Interest In-terest that In many places It was impossible im-possible for some who called for ex-jaminatlons ex-jaminatlons to secure them because of the congested condition and the f icr that it was physically out of the question ques-tion to handle them. Over 200 were turned away at Brlgham City, ao great v.'us the interest there. GENERAL INDORSEMENT Without any exception, the health education work carried on in connection connec-tion with the clinic has had the un-Qoavllfled un-Qoavllfled endorsement of the medicaJ and educational professional. social welfare and civic organizations, tom-ImSrcla tom-ImSrcla clubs, church officials and ' people generally. It may be said that the traveling clinic has been a success even beyond the most realistic dreams of those who conceived it, and on every hand are heard the heartiest expressions of approval ap-proval and slncerest hop el that the necessary work so well begun be continued con-tinued and made even more effective. Utah county shows the greatest number of people examined at the clinic, there being 1232. Cache county-comes county-comes next with 1158. while n the Uintah Hasln H01 persona wxTe examined. ex-amined. . lc Ni: OI TV. Surgeon Warren A. Colton of the U. 9. Public Health Service. M S Parker, educational director, and Miss Emma L. BroWhe, supervising nurse, j both of the Ftah Public Health association asso-ciation left yesterday for Wayne county, where the clinic open.s Monday Mon-day By an arrangement made between President Joseph Eckereley ot the Wayne stake and James H. Wallts. secretary sec-retary of the Utah Public Health association, asso-ciation, the clinic will give two days service at BlCknell, if word reaches Dr. C. P. Knight in time, "nd the arrangement ar-rangement meets his approval. The people of Teasdale nnd Torrcyj will go to Blcknell for examination. oo