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Show Marriages And Divorces Show Increases In State ' m 5,844 Marriages Performed In Utah During 1928; 1,013 Divorces Granted; County Figures Given. , Both mfirriagog and divorces show an increase in Utah for the year 1028. aceorclinji to the preliminary prelim-inary report just issued by the U. S. department of commerce. There were 5.844 marriages performed per-formed in Utah during 1928. as compared com-pared with 5.717 in 1027. This is an increase of 127 or 2.2 per cent. In WIG. there were only 3.036 marriages mar-riages performed. During M2S. there were 1,013 divorces di-vorces granted, as compared with 981 in 1927, representing an increase in-crease of 32. or 3.3 per cent. In 1916, 661 divorces were granted. There were 32 marriages annuied in 1928, as compared wtih 19 in 1927. Percentage increases The estimated poplation of the state of Uluh on July 1, 1928. was 531.000, and on July 1. 1927, 522,000. On the basis of these estimates, the number of marriages per 1,000 of the population was 11.01 in 392S, as against 10.95 in 1927; and tlio number num-ber of divorce peY 1,000 of the population was 1.93 in 1928, as against 1.88 in 1927. Utah county was third among the counties of the state, both iu marriages and divorces. A total of 461 marriages were performed, o comiKired with 416 the previous year; while 66 divorces were granted, grant-ed, as compared with 44 in 1928. Three annulments were granted in 1929, while only one was granted the year before. The statistics were reported to the commerce department by tha county clerk of each county. |