Show iWHITE PlAGUE V Cl CLAIMS MANY Tuberculosis Cases Number Number Number Num Num- ber In in County One half of all the tuberculosis In Utah Is In Salt Lake City and the county of Salt Lake and this I Is between and cases declares de declares declares de- de clares James H. H Vallis 1 executive secretary of the Utah Public Health association ion quoting from his annual annual an annual an- an nual report made this fall faIt Ve We estimate between 1200 and and 1 GOO 1600 active cases of ot the disease in Utah and this I is conservative e oC Mr 11 I Wallis said The number more i closely approaches 2000 cases I Utah has had 1494 1 deaths from 1 tuberculosis since 1916 associations Association s figures v which were compiled from the death certificates on file rile Inthe Inthe in the flie office of or the state board of health show In a survey made among I the Known cases in Utah the association association association tion discovered that per cent w were ere found to be native born that 6 61 1 per cent have lived here since childhood and per cent have had a ten j years years' ears ears' residence or more The Theer findings show that t tie seed of af tuberculosis ha has been planted in our state and andI If allowed to g go ul unchecked in r decade dec dec- dec decade i eg h ade e eve we ve shall be reaping ap a a- b bounteous bounteous boun boun- te us harvest of the disease Mr A Yams said 1 The Utah Public Health association tion has contributed several thousand thousand thousand thou thou- sand dollars to the National Tuber- Tuber association since tho the selling selling sell sell- ing of Christmas Christmas' seals commenced In Utah The national organization sell sell-I tion has rendered inestimable service service service ser ser- vice vice- in contributing t to to t tle be e curtailment curtailment curtail curtail- ment meat of ot tuberculosis In n the United I The States said Mr Wallis death rate ate from that disease in 1901 1904 was 2026 6 per and in 1912 according according- to the United States census census census cen cen- sus bureau it w was s 1142 2 oi on an approximate approximate ap ap- ap proximate i reduction of one half In eight years jears In hs IlS plea for a 11 state sanatorium for Utah for the care of ot tubercular lar sufferers Mr Wallis points to figures given by bj the national as association association as- as wh h show that mortalIty mortality mortality mortal mortal- ity from the disease Is lessened by I at least deaths death annually be because because because be- be cause of ot the cures cutes effected in sanatoria sana sana- toria torla a throughout the Oie country countr Experience has shown he said that the average stay at t sanatoria I ria is between six sl and seven months per patient At an average per capita cap cap V ita Its cost of 25 75 per day using the minimum figure of ot six months the s 's a stay stav at the sanatorium has cost about making the cost of saving saYing GOOn lives yearly |