Salt Lake Telegram | 1912-08-17 | Page 7 | Health of State Greatly Improved since Last Year

HEALTH OF STATE 4 GREATLY CRATY IMPROVED SINCE LAST YEAR Decrease in the Num Number r of I Communicable Diseases and in Death List I The state health bulletin n for tor the month of or July was WM Issued this morning by Secretary Sec Sac Dr T. T B. B Beatty of or the state board of or health health- and shows a 3 remarkably low death toll toH for tor or that month Tho The total number number num- num num num- I ber bar of or deaths resulting last month from all causes In the entire state wa was as against for fox the same tamo month last year when the death rate was also also unusually low how for July A smaller number of ot cases were registered for every one of or nine contagious con con- diseases recorded regularly In th the monthly report Big decreases were recorded In smallpox small small- pox whooping cough and typhoid fever rever for Cor July 1 1911 11 as ns compared with July 1912 The report for scarlet fever for last month shows that In 1911 there were sev say four enty cases case and five rive deaths compared compared com corn pared with forty cases casu and one death for this year There were cases cues of smallpox smallpox small small- pox last year with one death as compared com corn pared to one eighty cases this year and no deaths Similar decrease e Is III shown In Inthe Inthe inthe the report of cases of or diphtheria and membranous croup for this month and corre corresponding month last year reAr Only fourteen contracted th the disease this year one dying as a a. result while seven fifty got ot the disease last year with four fa ta- ta ta Three deaths and 16 cases of at typhoid fever were shown shots n last year ear as a. compared with three fifty cases calleR and four our deaths for or 1912 Whooping cough claimed persons three of whom died last year ear ear as compared with seven Beven deaths out Df or 9 reported cases this past July Measles 1 claimed one death in July last Jut I year from sixty one patients while this year ear there were no deaths but seventy seventy- ono one cases calles reported Chicken pox for the coi responding corresponding months In l 1911 tl and 1912 wee almost equal thirty six cases this month two more than for the month In 1911 Five deaths of a total of or twelve twelve- cases of at pneumonia resulted last year car and seven deaths out of or thirtyfour thirtyfour thirty- thirty four cases for this years year's July A decrease decrease de do- crease in fatalities from tuberculosis tuber tuber- was waR shown the Ithe last month over the corresponding month of or last laet year only six dying this year as ae compared with Ith nine for Cor last year ear