Salt Lake Telegram | 1942-10-03 | Page 9 | Utah Wells Inspire Warning from Health Group

Utah Wells Inspire Warning From Health Group Some Som people entering Utah are ae drinking water that is fit only for irrigation water members of the Utah Public Health association were told Saturday during a symposium symposium symposium sym sym- on health problems at the concluding session of their fifth annual meeting This condition was revealed by V V. B. B Lamoreaux Denver Deny of the United States public health servIce service service ice sanitarium who also disclosed that 50 per cent of the shallow surface wells in Utah are unsafe Mr Lamoreaux said that most consumption of unfit water is taking taking taking tak tak- ing place in rural areas where camps are being established near war industries Generally cities have adequate water supplies A slight Increase in deaths from tuberculosis in Utah the first six months of 1942 1912 was cited by Dr William M. M McKay state health commissioner who reported that Utah's tuberculosis death rate was the lowest in the nation in Ia 1941