Salt Lake Telegram | 1906-07-27 | Page 11 | Free Antitoxin Cuts down Death List |

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Date	1906-07-27
Paper	Salt Lake Telegram
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
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Article Title	Free Antitoxin Cuts down Death List
Type	article
Date	1906-07-27
Paper	Salt Lake Telegram
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
Page	11
OCR Text	Show FREE ANTITOXIN CUTS DOWN DEATH LIST Hs - hIbBISBCRG. Pa, July 27. 6fate . Health Commissioner Samuel G. Dixon con-r con-r tinnes to cut down the death rate from diph- theris through the agency of antitoxin. , ' which the State Department of Health is dis- ' tri bating free of charge throaghont Peansyl- vania ia all eases where the patients are too poor to psy for the sernm. For instance, the report of the antitoxin division for the wees ending Jnly 10 gives . the remarkably low death rate of 6 per cent for all jcates treated with State antitoxin, k, . Statistics show that the death rate in diph- I 'theria is 43 per cent where antitoxin is not I ' need. i ' I
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