Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-05-25 | Page 12 | Pneumonia is in Lead as Cause of Deaths

PNEUMONIA IS IN LEAD AS CAUSE OF DEATHS There were 130 deaths from all causes In Utah in April, according to the monthly bulletin of the state board of health issued is-sued yesterday. Pneumonia caused the most deaths, with a total of twenty-one. Tuberculosis was tlie cause of thirteen deaths. Five deaths resulted from whooping whoop-ing cough, which is still regarded bv some people as a mild, inoffensive dis- j ease of children. There was only one death during the ! month from typhoid fever, which used to exact a heavy toll from the state every month before the state board of health , imposed its sanitary regulations, inaugurating in-augurating "clean -town" contests, end before the cities and towns of Utah began be-gan improving their water systems.