Show GOOD VORK NN ORK RY BY HEALTH BOARD at least one branch of our state government is doing its praiseworthy worthy work so quietly and unostentatiously that the benefits which it confers are regarded as a matter of course and do not recene receive the wide spread recognition that is due this is the state health board composed a few men of science who are among the most ener getic and devoted citizens in the commonwealth mon wealth they are arc untiring in their efforts to deal summarily with the di diseases teases that aff lilet utah communities and ad most of their work has to do with the home bome the social unit fear and disease are perhaps the greatest enemies of humanity and to combat these it is abol necessary to educate the individual the state health board is taking the lead in the campagino cam against disease and is therefore raising humanity to a higher plane the members of the board are always alert alart it is that they are being paid for it and are always prepared for emergencies in this connection it will be sufficient to call attention to one of the recent acts of the board A few days ago it made arrangements for the free distribution trib ution of antitoxin among the in digenti and poor of etab ut ih of the high price of ane so called specific many patients have inthe in the past been denied its benefits and diphtheria has made headway where under proper treatment it might have been checked the board has secured contracts for quantities of the medicine at cost which will be bold to the communities muni ties on the same terms upon tho the recommendation of a physician and health officer all indigents indi gents and poor persons suffering from diphtheria will be inoculated free of charge now is if the time for the health officers of sevier county to make requisition for a supply of antitoxin |