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Show 'FEWER PEOPLE DIE IN UTAH THAN ANY OTHER PLACE Utah's death rate of 7.29 per 1000 population was lowest in the nation in 1946, while the state's birth rate increased to 28.3 babies per 1000 residents well above the national average, according to a vital statistics report released Friday Fri-day by Dr. Welby W. Bigelow, acting state health commissioner. Three persons died elsewhere in the nation from tuberculosis to every one in Utah, the report shows. Despite the fact that 78 persons died from this disease in Utah highest number in years the state's death rate was only 12.28 compared with a national average of 37.2. 1 Nevertheless, tuberculosis rose from 13th to 10th place in the state as a cause of death. Pneumonia ranked seventh in Utah as a cause of death, killing 182 persons and giving a death rate of 28.81. The national death rate was 39.2. Despite the fact that Utah ranks near the top of the nation in number num-ber of births per 100,000 persons, its maternal and infant death rates were low compared with the national average. The national death rate was 10 , ! |