Show state organized for xmas seal sale organization of a i central state committee to have charge of the christmas seal sale which opens in in utah on thanksgiving day was perfected it a meeting yesterday at the hotel utah nephi L morris will head the committee as state chairman and james H wallis executive secretary of the utah public health association under whose direction the sale is conducted will ad act as secretary associated with them wi will 11 be two representatives from every cout county ity in the state the seal sale plans this year are larger and more comprehensive than for any prece proceeding eding sale according to mr wallis this is necessary he says to put over the program for the coming years work this year the tuberculosis anti campaign for the financing ot 01 which the seat seal sale is held will take on intensive aspects of constructive work previously the association has been concerned with making surveys and gathering statistics so that the extent of the disease within the state might be determined the traveling clinic which ended its activities last march disclosed the fact that out of 2858 people examined were suffering buffering with active virulent cases of the disease and exposing a vast number of other people members of their immediate families I 1 the disease is even more widespread than these figures indicate mr wallis explains since only those people in each community who voluntarily unta harily rily came to the clinic a meagre proportion were examined realizing that those victims must receive medical treatment and care such as is can be had only in a tuberculosis sanatorium and in view of the fact that there is not even a tu bercu losis ward in any of the hospitals of the state aside from the limited accommodations in the salt lake county coulty general hospital the utah public health association was dennitt ly committed at its lecent annual convention to initiate a movement for the erection and equipment ol of sucu such a hospital utah is one of the three states in the union which has nilde no provision for its citizens the utah public health association will use a portion of the funds fue raised during this years sale in gathering ering all facts and statistics of the prevalence of the disease in utah and getting the same in shape bhame to present to the next legislature so ho that a sufficient appropriation inay be asked for the erection of a willa tina corium this mr wallis states will necessitate front experts on sanatoria and meads that a tuber tuberculosis culosi s diagnostician will be continued on oil last page STATE ORGANIZED FOR FOH XMAS SEAL SALE continued from page 1 attached to the personnel of the association during the coining year A committee will be appointed to investigate ani pass on the most likely site for a sanatorium and the very latest features of architect architecture uie will be investigated so that a co complete m and comprehensive plan can be submitted to the legislature it also means employment of tuberculosis nurses to visit if poss possible ble every home in the state ate where the disease ili sease is i known or suspected to elisi exist and secure a complete social history bastory aid number of contacts cant acts in e ich ach place information on home will be given at the tine of the nurses visit I 1 I 1 ont oni hall half 1 of the I 1 roceda roce ds raided fram t ie sale of the christmas Chiist ma seal k I 1 in a L lake county will be d to at a in n the hubei work vork at the county general hopital ho pital conn ty commissioner W P F dr F 13 counte health r tind and miss margaret in ersoll erol superintend ten lent of nurses burges and others are co operating with nith the association in the county sale five and one half million seals to tol sell for a penny apiece have been ordered for this years campaign campag n quota is placed it which represents but a dimes worth of the seals for every person in the state toward that end each coun ty is being rapidly organized organised sed under a central county committee salt lake summit juab cache morgan tooele thoele wasatch romelder Rox elder carbon emery uintah duchesne north sanpete San pete and garf garfield beld counties are already organized the large cities are being organized independently independents th and will direct to the state committee in provo the sile will be conducted by mayor 0 K hanson dr 11 II G merrill john S smith alex hedquist and senator leroy dixon with ruth ward mumford as secre tary treasurer ogden logan avd salt lake city are partially organized and will be completed early the coming week to simplify purchases for those citizens who wish to invest st larger sums in the health campaign bonds bond have been prepared in 5 10 25 50 and dollar denominations the sale balo will open thanksgiving day and close christmas eve e e the state committee comin attee appointed yesterday includes iron county uriah uriab jones mry mary M marsden |