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Show Looking Towards Health Salt Lake City, February 12. One of the most important health bills ever introduced at a session of the Utah Legislature is Senate Bill No. 27 by Dixon, which passed the senate and has been favorably reported rep-orted by the public health committee of the house of representatives. The bill in question provides for a tuberculosis research commission whose duty it would be to conduct investigations and do research work for the purpose of determining the causes, extent and progress of tuberculosis tuber-culosis among the people of Utah, to seek the aid of and' co-operate with the United States Public Health Service Ser-vice and all other agencies interested or engaged in such Work; to assemble ass-emble and compile all the information inform-ation and data and present the. same to the governor prior to the next Tegular session of the legislature, with wi-th recommendations for the enactment enact-ment of such legislation as said com-mi.ssion com-mi.ssion may deem advisable or necessary neces-sary for the purpose of protecting the inhabitants of Utah against tuberculosis tub-erculosis and to care for those aire-adv aire-adv afflicted' with said disease. The Commission asked for would be appointed' by the governor for j a tern of two years, ant: will consist j of five .nwmUsrs, citiizens of this Suite, to sjrve without salary. Ev-c'Y Ev-c'Y the Secreatary of the Commission, provided for in the bill, would also sorvc without compensation, lienor tc services of the Commission in questions would entail no expenses whatever to the State. It has been dearly proven by the findings of the Traveling Health Clinic Cli-nic conducted in Utah the last M-ar and a halt by the Utah Public Health Association, that much tuberculosis tuber-culosis exists In this State with an anmuent increase of said disease in many sections, largely on account o. ,he influx of people from outside o: the State. , Hundreds of active cases of tuberculosis tuber-culosis were found by the U.S. Pul.nc Health Service physicians attached to the said' CHnlc and yet investigations were made among only about one-third one-third of the population of this State, j only a email percentage of the peoplej of each community visited by the Clinic Cli-nic availing themselves of its services. Tho tuberculosis survey in Utah Is well begun and the need of a commission, comm-ission, such as is proposed in Senata Bill 27, to provide for the continuance and completion of said survey is cle-,arly cle-,arly apparent, even to the casual observer, if we are to check the spread spr-ead of this insidious malady in Utah Which is well known to be preventable prevent-able and curable. There are approximately two hundred hun-dred deaths annually from tuberculosis tuber-culosis in Utah with an appalling economic loss, an'd' far more considerations con-siderations should be given the fight against lit. It would seem that the situation in Utah from the standpoint of tuberculosis tub-erculosis clearly demands the enactment enact-ment o'f juwt such a law as the one proposed and it is to be hoped that the members of the house will see their way clear to support the measure. meas-ure. It surely would be a step forward for Utah. , Governor Mabey recommend this Commission in his message to the legislature. It la no 'doubt the wish of a very large majority of the ipeople of this State that such a commission be created, and especially so in view of the fact that it would not increase the State's taxev? .one whdt. Nothing that we can conceive of in the way of health legislation Is more needed as there are unquestionably un-questionably thousands of cases of tuberculosis in Utah today personally per-sonally unkoiwn to. those engaged in the campaign against it, a majority maj-ority of which could unquestionably be located through a proper medium with proper facilities properly functioning, func-tioning, and relief Riven. . ... ' |