| Show U1AIIS SALUBRIOUS CLMATE I SHOWN BY LOW DAIiIi RATf lore People Die From Old Age Than From Any Other Cause II I I That Salt Lake City is one of the mt healthful cIte In the Unite Stat ir not in the world the ceful b kept vital statll of the loc health office prove I Is likewise true that the death rte will SOW lighter I inste of greater with a increase of population as is the case with mO t cities This is conclusively proven by the reduced death rte of the past four years compared with any tem of ear preceding them This J not s noticeable among adults as Jt is wth the lessened mortality among children during the pit yes compared wIth those going before The IgM death rate of the city is altec in a great mI ur accounted for by the Improved m laY condition of the city the sewerage age system and general sanitation being be-ing second t none in the country Among the native population the diseases dis-eases under the head of rSlratior1 oomplaiats such asth oomplnts suc a consumption ma etc are almost unknown there beIng be-Ing only five deaths flbm these diseases during the year ISIS among native Uth out of fiftycilgit reporteti Ti the ete public these figures will be iiisrtling as the total deaths from I drs a only slghty over 9 percent per-cent of tqc whole whes H many places over half of the death rte il mae up frm the ruse There is n p1an tl continent tviiere con fumpUlrC c come wIth a Srater assurance as-surance of iiing relief than in tI valley of the Great Sa ake Die Prom O1AgkV I Sat Lake is a ct of oct genans The Iteheadr old gnd who crosatthe plains In 184 are yes much I in evidence upon tha streets During the year just post there haAbe six tyfive death from Qld age in tb l city r nt of them being over 80 er of age a recd that few cities of Its size I can boast During the year there nave been from all cUE 60 deaths as cmpa with 61 tc the year 18S or thee lIZ were males and 258 females The month of the 13rgcalt mortality was January the least being in he month of February and November with thirtyeight deaths each The following classes of diseases were the causes of all the deaths of the yea Ztlc 93 dletetJ 10 conatlutun aI 93 nervous 71 circulatory 42 rca piraloo 58 dlgetie 54 gertourln ao IS tocomotr 1 others cuS 1 Qf the more prevalent omplaln the following were repreeated as fonaws Old age 65 pneumona 28 carit fever 12 heart disease 12 diphtheria 6 and typhoid fever G Of the 610 deaths 223 were native Utaims The death rate per 100 for the enUre yearf S 57 4which is a slight decrease from iSIS The deaths during the year by months tr as foloWI compared with ISIS IShi ISIS JauT cs se February t 61 f March 6 53 April 45 46 May 5 44 June 45 35 July 47 fd I August 0 r September 58 4 October 5 5 November 33 41 Deem er 40 50 I 610 612 2 Contagious Disease Of the Ctaous diseases scarlet fever has been the most prevalent dUr InS he a tphold coming next with dJhthera and whooping cough follow log clccly During December smell pox made its appearance two cases haYing deelope in the city one of I which however came from the utude Fatalities however from this clean of complaInt were very few only twenty I tr provIng fntt1 out ofa tct of 5U castu The following ta1lo giVE the number of cases reported C si cc 8 ri q l t I t a 001 a r n I f 21 1 I I January 1jf j Februarvntt 16 2 March = 3 iii 1 Alrl 21 May 1 itt f 1 J Jp9 33 I 1 I AUbt UI J 1 16 I 16 J September 2 81 15 I October li 41 3 ovember 71 cml i iii December 6 2 I Totals 26 r 372FiI Ii Bi h Outnumbered Deaths From these fguref it it3 p1asnt to turn to the ether side of the picture The births In the city have outnumber cd the deaths by 47 there being 103 birtnsduing the year The sexes wee about equally divided there being 631 malta and 537 females repoed The I Tim hlhest birth rate was in the month of October which had 12 bIrths to ka credit the least l was In Decent beD which had only i |
