Show lite s STATISTICS show that tUb United States dur of the l death reJ f ing the last census year was 151 thousand Thu Medical Record per j j thinks the returns if complete would show a death rate of 15 per thousand I f thou-sand which is less than that of any other civilized country the range being from 202 per thousand in Denmark Den-mark to 302 per thousand in Italy Of the 733840 deaths in the last cen 01551 sus year classified by causes were from consumption no other single disease making any approach to this in the number of its victims This is only a repetition of the tale I told by local mortuary reports almost al-most all over the country consumption consump-tion always heading the list of epidemic causes except where a severe demic prevails It begin 10 J look as If Salt Lake were to be DO exception to the rule though for a long time it was believed that consumption would not thrive in this climate Latterly the city sext ons reports have shown that deaths from pulmonary I r pul-monary complaints are strictly on i the increase It is true that in a large < majority of cases the victims contracted con-tracted the disease before comirg to Utah but the fact that consumption prominently in our is figuring so 1 mortuary statistics is not encouraging i encourag-ing |