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Show Heart Diseases Top Death List for State During 1952 Heart disease continues to be he No. 1 killer in Utah says the annual statistical report on deaths issued by Dr. George A. Spendlove, state health commissioner. commis-sioner. A total of 1728 persons or nearly one-third of the 5495 who died during 1952 succumbed to heart disease. In 1951 only 1676 died of heart ailments. A single classification of diseases,, heart circulatory and kidney diseases accounted for 1408 deaths last year as compared with 2334 in 1951. Cancer, the No. 2 killer took 692 lives last year compared com-pared with 666 the previous vear. John W. Wright, director of Vital statistics reported. The causes of the three most important forms of heart and circulatory disorders accounting for about 90 per cent of all heart damage have yet to be discovered. discov-ered. They are rheumatic, coronary coron-ary and hypertensive heart disease. dis-ease. However, your Utah Heart Association, in conjunction with the national American Heart Association, As-sociation, is spearheading a nationwide na-tionwide attack on diseases of the heart and blood vessels, re-sultine re-sultine in eneouraeine oroeress other fund. At the present time there is absolutely no need for any new building construction at the airport, and so far as I have been able to determine there are no plans under way for any type of building construction there. A visit to the airport Tuesday Tues-day revealed that only four small planes were stored in the largest hangar, and one small plane in the other hangar. Four of these planes belong to the Parkair flying service and are used for passenger flights and for crop dusting of various kinds. The other plane is a small one belonging to former Mayor Gron-way Gron-way R. Parry. There is ample shop and office space in the two hangars, and airline office space, CAA equipment and so on is provided in the administration building. Sufficient funds are provided in the budget for repairs re-pairs and maintenance of buildings build-ings and runways. Since there is no need for the building funds at the airport and a very urgent need for a larger and safer bridge at the recreation recrea-tion park, it is my contention the sufficient funds should be taken from the airport building fund to build the bridge, and 1 1 also maintain that this should be done immediately, before the summer use of the park begins. I believe that the public generally gen-erally would support the city in such transfer of funds at this time, and I urge the city administration admin-istration to take immediate action ac-tion on this matter. Sincerelv vours, FRANK MILNE, City Councilman by medical science. Your financial support is needed need-ed now to aid in the curing and curbing of the No. 1 killer, heart disease. I The cost of living is always a problem: with inflation, you worry about the cost, and with deflation you worry about the living. |
