| Show aTTER BABY WEEK NEEK PROCLAIMED BY 1 j GOVERNOR pie Jle of State Urged to Even Greater Care of Infants' Infants Health tm spite the fact that Utah ranks i among the states states' of ot the union in registration of births and deaths I William Sp Spry today Issued proclamation calling upon the peo- peo I f t the state to observe BETTER Y week March 4 to 11 he governor calls upon the people I lithe the state to Join in tn those things I ch will mean the better lof the lives of children juring the week meetings will be practically every community the Hie state and it Is hoped that from movement permanent is s will wUl be formed which will better serve erve the health of children turing luring BETTER BABY week the theto toi to Oi board of ot health will distribute 00 oo circulars bearing on the subject J better caring for the health of In- In 1 its As ts the matter this morn morn- T. T B. B Beatty secretary of the i of health said are children under age of ot 1 year who die annually in United States Of this vast num- num I Jat at least 75 per cent or die I I nr preventable diseases Within WIthin tho the last few years thinking women in many of the states stales I the union have been trying to de de- by which tho the people might Come come educated so that this fearful i life might be prevented It is the he purpose of or better education t the governor has Issued his pro pro- mation for BETTER BABY week hope that during that week we I. I 11 I hope arouse a greater interest in the I than has ever been manifest the past I Beatty Talks r said that during the last P r ars wonderful progress had been in Utah In the preventing preventing- of ot the 1 cad of contagious and infectious ases but that there was still much for improvement el declared that in the last five th the death rate of typhoid fever tah had been reduced 80 SO per cent that hat the death rate from scarlet r lad fallen from five years ago agoo I o last ast year ear These figures are for tire entire state In n 1908 1048 Infants I the age of I L year died in Utah I the last year for which corne com com- e statistics are available in- in s sunder under 1 year of age died in Utah decrease was made in spite of the ease in population Uhe he last five years ears Utah has ad- ad c ced cd i at a wonderfully rapid rate In registration of births and deaths death a ay ay Utah stands at the head of the theon q on Ot on in this work as is evident from United States public health res re- re s 5 for the week ending February 11 The report in part says Considering the group of fifteen a r states It is interesting to note noto Utah lUtah a very veTY young registration e l ls unequivocally best of all in the stratum of sickness Within four i LIve five Ive years Utah has brought the i of Infectious diseases to a alen feri len status than Massachusetts tho the registration state has been able abla in half a century e Money Needed r Beatty said this morning that ng the last few years every mother I e fur furnished with a circular entitled Baby This was delivered he mother at the time the birth fi ate was delivered and conda conla con- con la da few simple rules for the better ig ig g for babies He declared that site Ite the fact that a reduction of 20 0 per cent in the death rate of ofA A pits ts ts had been made in Utah from C el to ito 1916 there was still at least I infants died in Utah every year elives lives might be saved by proper He also declared that the state not doing all It could in the mat- mat me lias' lias the appropriations were entirely mall for the work that needed to f one ne Dr Beatty declared that at r resent sent time Um the state was spend- spend J but 3 S cents per man woman and lin the tho state through the board of thor for the care and prevention of and infectious diseases my ny of of those who should have this ft-cr ft er at heart seem to think more of bull or horse than they do Bearing healthy children declared j doctor lIe He said that as a result JETTER ETTER BABY week it was hoped iii hi every community in iii the state would be formed who would i themselves the work of see- see that the time movement was kept alive knot not allowed to languish and die I good can be done through inEra In s and circulars that will be held and distributed during the week but the real work will come later it is a question that must be kept alive for not a week or a month but every 2 day L in the year and in ln the years to come Utah has reason to be proud of its present record for health but we have not done all that we could could- we can prevent eVent the he death ot hundreds of infants every year and we can also continue to reduce the death rate of men and women men from W. W contagious and infectious diseases What we need is education fi and th then n more education I hope that t the e entire population n of ot the state every man an woman and child HV who hn in i is old e enough ugh to think will take tt this matter to heart and assist In the f great death th work rate of f further reducing th the I not not alone of infants but of all aH ages |
