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with tlic State society, use of the local newspaper 

 puhlicity, the sale of seals to finance the work, edu- 

 cation through health talks, clinics, health plays, 

 pageants and movies, distribution of literature, es- 

 tablishment of hot school lunches and the promotion 

 of a constant health crusade. In April, 1921, there 

 were twenty-nine local anti-tuberculosis societies in 

 Michigan, in addition to forty-two tuberculosis com- 

 mittees of clubs and other organizations. 



As evidence of the increasing interest in the health 

 of the people, urban and rural, public health nurses 

 are now maintained in many localities throughout 

 the two peninsulas. In April, 1921, they were re- 

 ported from fifty of the eighty-three counties of the 

 State. The State Department of Health then had 

 listed 266 public health nurses, under various desig- 

 nations, such as county nurse, visiting nurse, indus- 

 trial nurse, Eed Cross public health nurse and school 

 nurse. Of some the field work was country wide; of 

 others, local. 



The director of the Bureau of Child Hygiene and 

 Public Health Nursing of the Michigan Department 

 of Health summarizes the work of the bureau as 

 follows : "Sanilac County is planning to have the 

 services of a dentist for two months during the 

 summer months to do work among the rural school 

 children. St. Clair County is equipping a Health 

 Truck for this purpose which goes about over the 

 county during the entire summer. On this truck 

 the local merchants are buying space for their ad- 

 vertisements, which help materially in making the 



