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Show INFANT MORTALITY LOWOLTLM Statistics Show City Has Fewer Deaths Than Any of Same Class. Salt Lake, the fifty-seventh largest city In the United &tatea, has been awarded the honor, three out of five times, of having the lowest infant mortality rate of any city in its class for the past twelve years, according to statistical reports Just compiled by the New York milk committee. commit-tee. Last year the number of deaths of babies under 1 year of age in Salt Lake was 213, showing an increase of eight deaths over 1917 and a decrease of sixteen six-teen over the year 1916. During the period between 1906 and 1910 the infant mortality rate of Salt Lake was S6.4 per thousand and from 1911 to 1915 the rate had fallen to 66.9 per thousand. thou-sand. In 1916, the third time a census of this kind was taken. Fort Wayne, Ind., led the list with a rate of 62.2 per thousand, and in 1917 Brockton, Mass., with a rate of 63.9 per thousand, won the highest honors. In 1918, however. Salt Lake held the lead with a maximum rate of 63.3, the lowest record in the class. In some instances, however, infant deaths have been very large. The chart shows that there were almost as many deaths in Salt Lake as in Seattle, Wash., which Is the twenty-first largest city in the United States. Boise, Idaho, the 240th largest city, shows an infant mortality rate of ono-tenth ono-tenth of 1 per cent larger than Salt Lake. |