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Show UTAIINS HEALTHY RECORDS REVEAL It costs the State of Utah only 49 cents per person to give Utah one of the best health records in the nation, it is revealed in the biennial report submitted by Dr. William M. McKay, state health commissioner. The report reveals that typhoid, along with smallpox, is vanishing; that Utah is making an excellent record relative the control of tuberculosis; tuber-culosis; that a mobile X-ray unit has traveled throughout the state and examined 25,000 persons a year, and that Utah's ratio of births to deaths holds the record for the nation, and appears to be on the increase with one death to 3.50 births. Utah's fine health record, rec-ord, the report indicated, was due to the excellent public health work carried on during the past few years. |