Show s Crave Arns At T fB The possibility that Utah willbe willbe will willi willibe be the first state to eradicate tuberculosis is the hope as 32 million Christmas Seals are arc this week sent through the mails heralding the thc beginning I of oC the annual Christmas I Seal Campaign I MAURICE Abravanel 1961 chairman announced this week weck that the campaign officially began be gan Monday Nov 16 6 at which time opened their mail and discovered it is time to do Christmas mailing and Christmas scaling sealing Tuberculosis continues to be bc bea a problem for Utah The 1963 Legislature approved a study tobe to tobe be bc undertaken by the Utah State Legislative Council in order order or or- der to find answers to some j perplexing problems ANOTHER survey concerning concerning concerning concern concern- ing the residents of the Salt SaIl Lake downtown area has just been completed with Christmas Christmas Christ Christ- mas Seal funds Utah has the lowest Incidence of tuberculosis in the nation l less ss than ten cases per persons However However However How How- ever in just lust 15 blocks of downtown downtown down town Salt Lake the rate of persons per per- I sons sans having the disease is 40 90 times as great The results of a cultural socio-cultural study of the people their lives and their reluctance to participate participate pate in health campaigns is completed and will be released in early December clearing the way for early detection and treatment among hard reach hard reach to-reach citizens CHRISTMAS Seals are arc the only source of funds for this voluntary effort against TB and related respiratory diseases Of all ail the funds collected in the state 93 per cent remains in Utah while the other seven per percent percent percent cent is sent to the National Tuberculosis Tuberculosis Tuberculosis Tu Tu- Tu- Tu Association for research research re re- re search and education Gerald H. H whose story is told this year in the Christmas Seal letter has been in the tuberculosis tuberculosis los losis s hospital in Ogden for the past eight months When his problem was diagnosed as TB Gerald weighed only 10 pounds and was crippled in the spine and hip His idol Cardinal manager Red has written Gerald telling how he was cured of TB five years ago and how he must keep up his courage and morale WITH THE launching of oC the Utah TB eradication program spread of the disease would be blocked thus making it possible possible possible pos pos- sible to raise a generation of free of tuberculosis Christmas Seal funds also help fight emphysema bronchitis bronchitis bron bran chi asthma hay fever and other respiratory ry diseases |