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Show Health Board's Bulletin for March Shows Slight Increase in Death Rate There was a marked increase In tho death rato In SnlL Lake City for March, according to tin; monthly report of tho health board which has Just conic from tho printer. The number of deaths in the March Just ended was Mil, :i against 115 for the corresponding month of 100S. This In an Increase of 2u deaths, or almost al-most 1?. per cent. The average death rate for each 1000 actual population vua 1 - -'15. The heavy death rate In March mars the. good record the year started oft with, hut there were 25 fewer deaths In the first, nuartcr of tnon than In Iho corresponding- period of 190S, The ilcnths for the first quarter of 1U0S were S.V5; for the same period this year, :!28. In February Feb-ruary of this year there were onlv 92 deaths, and in January, 9fi. Pneumonia reaped the richest harvest, claiming 21 victims. Organic heart disease dis-ease was second, with 11 victims, and congenital debility next, with S. Apoplexy Apo-plexy and tuherculorils claimed seven victims each, There were night violent deaths, of which two were suicide by poisoning and one by shooting. Of the 110 deaths. 72 were males and CS females. Two were colored. Forty-seven Forty-seven were of foreign nativity. Twcnty-clght Twcnty-clght nonresidents died In the cltv; 2:! bodlca were shipped away for burial, 20 were brought here for the same purpose, and o bodies were brought hero and then shlppod away. There were 232 births 122 boys and 110 girls and 104 marriages. The 22S contagious and infectious diseases dis-eases reported were divided as follows: Smallpox. B2; scarlet fever, 85; diphtheria, 20; measles, 0; tuberculosis, 1; pneumonia, pneumo-nia, .3; typhoid fever, 1; chicken pox, 13; whooping cough. 37. The sanitary department destroyed 1SS dogs, 20 horses, and 303 loads of garbage, at the crematory, and disposed of lOoO loads of ashes, manure and other rubbish nl the city garbage station. The rest of tills report is as follows: Nuisance complaints received and attended at-tended to, 92; garbage complaints received re-ceived and attended to. 120: visits and Inspections made. 237; written notices served, 97: cesspools, vaults and grease traps cleaned, t"00; notice to connect with sewer. 7S; sewer connections made, 110; Inspections for sewer connections, H5; night soil disposed of nt flushing station, tanks 07; colts destroyed at crematory, '2; cows. -I: calves, 1; cats, 4. The provision Inspector made 511 visits of inspection and the chemist, .17 analyses. analy-ses. The fumlgator disinfected CO houses for scarlet fever, 11 for diphtheria, and 3$ for smallpox. Total, 112. |