Salt Lake Telegram | 1915-01-26 | Page 10 | Death Rate is Low in Salt Lake City

DEATH RATE IS LOW LOWIN IN SALT LAKE CITY According to the tho vital ital statistics statistic tics report re to- port for 1914 IOU just issued by the tho health department there wore were 1140 1149 deaths i iSalt in Salt Lake during that period or a rate rate of per thousand an of population i This rato is based on an au estimated population population pop population of There Thero were 2350 births Of who died t 5 were nonresident which makes tho actual mate late for resi residents vcr per thousand In Iu 1913 the tee death rate for residents and lInd nonresidents wn was 1190 0 nail and 60 for actual ac no- residents claimed the number num ber her of victims a total of Brights Bright's disease claimed 94 91 tu tuberculosis 6 6 organic or or- ganic garde disease disease- of the heart hear t CO GG diphtheria an and croup U H and typhoid fever 13 Alcoholism Al AI i broll brought ht i 1 12 people all nil women I Ito to nn an untimely end earl Ten women succumbed suc sue I to childbirth and md 10 to debility incident to old eli age ace Violent death claimed persons persone 2 27 being suicides sui sui- cid eido I and ami 20 homicides homicides- Of the tine total deaths 1137 were white whit arid and 12 colored Ier persons ou Of tho total births 1143 1 1 were males and 1405 females This record shows that SnIt Salt Lake ake near the ton of a list of fifteen American cities in iu in tOll low OT death rato static statis tics ties