Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-10-11 | Page 4 | Last Fourth's Casualty Record

Last Fourth's Casualty Eecord. The Journal of the American ledlcal Association, published at Chicago, has just completed Its returns from the year's Fourth-of-July battlefield. They are not i as refiectlvc of substantial progress toward safe and sane methods of ccte- I uniting the anniversary us one would I wish. The Journal has kept such a. record since 1003, and comparison of tho bloody results of the last Fourth with those of previous years is as follows: , I G o . :r o i-s ! P o - c y Deaths from " 2 tS"1 2 1 3 : ? 190S 55 19S 5460'5C2G 1907 t2 102 12-19 -1413 190S , .' 75 S3 530S 5-IGG 1905 S7 05 iOO l 5t7G 1904 91 92 o9S(J41C9 1903 .'. 406 C0 39S3;-t419 A total of 1C3 deaths from the 190S cele- bratlon compares with 161 last yoar, Iff In 190G, 182 In 1905. 1S3 In 1904. and 4L In 1903. The marked reduction In mortan ity from lockjaw growing- out of povrdli Injuries Is to be attributed to the work's: medical associations and physicians warning people and giving Instructions regard to treatment of wounds. The moa general use of anti-toxin is held respoh slble 'for the fact that only 72 per ceri; of those thus treated for tetanus died thJfj year, as compared with S5 per cent las year.