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Show HEALTH REPORT. Wo do not bellovo any city or stato in tho country is bettor looked after by public health officials than Salt Lake and Utah. It Is gratifying to noto that the report of Dr. Samuel G. Paul, city health commis'slonor, contains proof that conditions aro constantly improving improv-ing in this city and that thoro is a marked doorcase in the number of cases of diphtheria, scarlet fever and kindred diseases. It iB moro than gratifying to noto that thero was not a single death duo to scarlot fever during tho year 1913. It goes without saying that city and state health officials cannot prevent disoase ontiroly. Neither can they stop its ravages unless given unqualified support by tho peoplo and tho lawmakers. law-makers. Tho rato of infant mortality in Salt Lako is low bocauso of tho rigid inspection of milk and tho increased in-creased number of district nurses, the latter being considered tho means by which the hoalth department is enabled to educate tho mothers who aro ignorant ignor-ant of hygionlc methods and tho valuo of sanitation. The public health officials should bo given a froo hand. Tho layman knows that cleanliness Is next to godliness, but he has not the scientific training necessary to enable him to see tho dangers dan-gers of contagion or to apply a remedy in case of epidemic. Whatever tho avorago citizen may think about it, tho public health department is the most important branch of tho city government govern-ment and should be regarded as such. Tho work of tho marino hospital service In stamping out yellow fever ,in tho south and prcvonting tho spread of bubonic plague on tho Pacific coast shows how far medical scionco has progrosBed in tho last fow years. With propor laws and their enforcement wonders won-ders can bo workod right hero in Utah. In tho meantime all good citizens will Tejoico at tho progress so far made as indicatod in tho roport of "Dr. Paul. |