Show 1 I Our City's Health By IS BEL MOYLE lOYLE Summit County Nurse I Last week the Utah State Tuberculosis J Association sent a representative to Park City to do do free of charge Manitou tests for Tuberculosis In the public schools Three hundred and six fifty students were vere given the test and among these there were twenty-eight twenty positive reactions Tills This does not necessarily Indicate that the child having a positive reaction has tuberculosis but It does mean that he has been rather Intimately exposed to It at some time In his life It would be advisable therefore for the parents parent of all children having a marked reaction to this test to take them to the family physician for a complete physical ex examination ex- ex examination examination and have baic chest X-rays X taken if the physician so advises Often mild cases are discovered In this way while I the prognosis for tor recovery Is still good No specific medicine for tor tuberculosis is 18 known but In the early stages It may maybe maybe maybe be checked by close attention to the per per- personal personal personal health especially rest and diet This should be under the direction of ot a physician Since tuberculosis Is supposed to be rather prevalent In Park City it be behooves be- be behooves hooves hoo all of ot us to help as much as possible to prevent the spread of the di di- di sease We can do so by getting an early diagnosis of ot all cases ca and by the pati pati- patient patient patient ent and his family observing all the precautions both for the care of ot the patient and for the prevention of or the spread of ot Infection |