Arizona republican., 1920-03-19
NAME DIRECTOR
To MAKE STATE
HEAL TIL SURVEY
Actual Number of Tubercu-
losis Cases In Arizona are
To Be Checked and Other
Valuable Data Secured

/ To check up the actual number of
] tuberculosis cases in the state of Ari-
iona, Charles Cuvellier, executive sec
| rotary of the Arizona Anti-Tubercu-
| losis Society, has been appointed direc7
| tor of state health survey This was
announced yesterday by A. II. Powers,
assistant to the superintendent of pub
lie health. DIR. George E. Goodrich.
The scope of the survey is to be
through the cooperation of physicians.
welfare workers and tuberculosis or
ganizations is to be enlisted, and or
| to combat the white plague in the most
effective and practical way.
Director Cuvellier will be assisted by
Mrs. Charles r. Howe, director of the
bureau of child welfare of the state
board of health. One of the chief OBJ
! jects of the survey will be to ascertain
| the number of persons infected in Ari-
zona, how many contracted the disease
from contact with infected persons who
came from other states, and how many
through contributing causes.
To Establish Clinics
Data will be compiled of each indi-
vidua1 case such as age. length of resi-
dence in the state earning ability. and
development of the disease at the time
of the survey. The number of children
exposed to infection by near proximity
to the infected ane the proportion of
deaths in which tuberculosis was n
contributory cause will also be inves-
tigated.
The survey will have the power to
establish clinics where they are thought
necessary, and school houses and play
grounds will be inspected with view
to determine how the health and well
fare of the pupils is promoted by the
different communities
Attention will be paid to water sup
plies, and the conditions of sewage
systems. garbage disposal and other
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The survey will also cover housing
conditions, especially in the poorer
neighborhoods. and the accommoda-
lions offered by furnished rooms, iodg
ing houses and mining camps
Centraiize Charities
In the larger cities the survey will
encourage the formation of public
health cenferS to cooperate with other
community agencies. ard seek to create
! a Capitalization of all Clarifies. which
record of all applicants for aid. and in
this way check may be placed on the
professional mendicants.
The director of the survey is en-
! thusiastic as to what can be done with
the public health center, in that the
! concentration of effort and funds make
4, possible many things that most COM
munities need. With the pooling of all
available resources, funds viii be
available foI. health work in the public
the smallest communities can secure
the appointment of public health
nurse to look after the needy sick, and
educate the poor in health measures.
and where there is no school nurse, as
sist in the schools.
Work in OMISSION
In cases where a number of towns
are close together. the public health
center can enroll all to work in uuision.
The center will promote dental clinics
in the schools wherever possible, and
hot lunches for the children. which has
been proven tc be beneficial measure
TO the children of well-to do parents as
well as poor.
The survey. through the health CEN
ter in its work in larger cities. viii
father the establishment of free clinics.
with a staff of physicians devoted 10
health problems as well as to tubercu
losis and in cities where thought bene-
fetal, establish open-air schools.
In localities where the need is evil
dent county sanitariums for the tuber-
culous will be opened as outlined by
the existing state law. and in places
where there is a need, the establish
ment of preventoriums for children on
the border line of tubercuiar trouble
urged upon the communities. IT, las
been found that s:lch prever to.irrns
have been beneficial to children not
infected but below the physical normal
development
With the facts developed by the sur
vey the state board of health will be
in a position to advise the legislature
as to the most practical measures Tor
the betterment Of public nea III