Show t n A II I II I Of STRANGE T AN I II I DEATHS DATH I OS I i 1 i I A VI O 1 I Ii i With 1 Questionable I Mortalities in iii Year Dr I Keyting Asks C Coroners Coroner's Physician Be Appointed II R p TION that j r. r JA I coroners coroner's physician be bt emI employed employed em em- I by Salt Lake Lak to investigate investigate gate deaths of a suspicious HaI nature na na- nature I ture is made m in the annual report I I of the city emergency hospital completed com com- i 1 d yesterday by Dr W. W S S. Keyting Keyting Key- Key I ting physician Physician In n charge of the I hospital Dr Dr Keyting bases base his recommendation I tion on figures in the the report showing I that in the last year e r there were inthe inthe in inthe the city deaths which occurred l I j t under such circumstances that th the tho thoI I i I I j death certificate could be bo issued only by a city physician Of tho those certificates certificates I cates sixty five were issued by Dr I Keyting fifty eight by Dr Robert Wr W W. j Ashley and thirteen by Dr C. C T T r j Albaugh I S Of those thos deaths Dr DC Keyting s Ha H s a large number were vere subject to toj j question because they occurred incases incases in inI I cases wherein no physician had been called and as a result the cause was not definitely y There also were several wherein the cause was wasI I known but hut the circumstances wore were such as to leave a 31 suspicion of foul I pia play CORONER So large is is the number of such deaths that Or Dr Keyting believes the county should employ a a. a coroner coronel whose whose first duty uty would be bc thoroughly ly to Investigate such cases and I who J should should h have ho o authority to call and md conduct whatever inquests he might deem necessary necessary Decrease in the number of or delirium delirium tremens cases handled at tho the has hos- hos 1 I pital but an increase in the number 5 j i of drug treated is shown by hy the report Jn Jo 1916 the hospital i j treated fo nine forty t p patients for d do- do i db-i I linum tremens in m 1917 it it handled only thirty four thirty such cases Seventy Seventy- j I three drug users were were- given treatment treat- treat ment last year against ng one forty in I 1916 Each of such cases requires administration of four hypodermic injections inActions in- in j Actions a day dar for a period of of three I weeks making a total of such Injections given to the drug patients j i jin in in 1917 j MANY INJURED i 1 There wore were In the last year rear 1438 1435 cases cases as as against 1219 1210 itt 11 l I 1316 1916 As many m patients at the I j emergency hospital are injured In of or the the body the I several parts part number nun nun- num-j num her ber of injuries treated exceeds the I I number of patients admitted Thus i ithe the present report shows 1809 injuries j I treated compared d with 1870 1570 in 1916 j I frequently is the How much more the knife wielded than the pistol in the tho I I hands of a violent person is indicated i by the report on the number of I wounds treated i I The total this the year is against I j 1041 in 1916 Of this number only I thirty four were caused b by gunshots gunshots arc listed as incised while are The rhe report indicates however that most of the wounds received in the city's I brawls are caused by hy fists mailed or I otherwise and blunt instruments of various kinds for of tho the wounds 1443 are arc described described as lacerated There were also aleo abrasions Of or the 1438 1938 patients admitted to tho the hospital only thirty five dle died within its wal walls s. s |