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Show 'HEALTH RECORD SET BY UTAH That Utah is a healthy place in which to live is proven by the latest lat-est U. S. census bureau figures which reveal that Utah's death rate is lower than any state in the Union. Reported by Dr. William M. McKay, state health commissioner, commission-er, the census figures disclose that the death rates were computed on an estimated population of 630,-000, 630,-000, and that the Utah ratio is 7.34 per 1,000 population as compared com-pared to the national average of 10 per every 1,000. "Utah's health record on the whole for the year 1945 was very encouraging," Dr. McKay announced, an-nounced, and who went on to explain ex-plain that, the ten leading causes of death in Utah were heart disease, dis-ease, cancer, accidents, cerebral hemorrhage, nephritis, pneumonia, premature births, diseases of infancy, in-fancy, diabetes and congential malformations. Fatal accidents in 1945 took the lives of 459 Utah citizens, Dr. McKay pointed out. |