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health conditions under various auspices were under 

 way in Michigan. The State Department of Health 

 was conducting a traveling clinic, which combined 

 a tuberculosis clinic and one for children. It was 

 the purpose of the latter to discover remediable de- 

 fects in children and to afford an opportunity for 

 examination for tuberculosis. As a result of these 

 clinics, several county nurses reported that physical 

 defects, siTch as defective vision, adenoids and en- 

 larged tonsils, have been corrected. The Michigan 

 Anti-Tuberculosis Association, in 1920, conducted a 

 series of clinics in rural districts, in cooperation with 

 the farm bureaus. The report of such a clinic held 

 in Manistee County runs thus : Number of thorough 

 chest examinations, 28; positive tuberculosis, 7; sus- 

 picious tuberculosis, 7 ; negative tuberculosis, 14 ; ex- 

 amination of school children, including mouth, nose 

 and throat examinations, 82 ; enlarged glands, 73 ; 

 decaying teeth, 57 ; goiters, 36 ; enlarged tonsils, 58 ; 

 adenoids, 33 ; defective hearing, 5 ; temperature ex- 

 ceeding 99 degrees, 34. 



During the first six months of 1920, tuberculosis 

 clinics by the Michigan Anti-Tuberculosis Association 

 were held in eleven counties, when this work was 

 assumed by the State Department of Health. Num- 

 bers of counties, including Ingham, Kent, Muske- 

 gon, Berrien, Bay and Saginaw, have established their 

 own clinics, and the attendance is said greatly to 

 exceed the facilities. The present plan of work for 

 the local anti-tuberculosis societies which have been 

 organized in various sections involves cooperation 



