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Show Utah Health Trends TrendsShown TrendsShown Shown in Report ReportUtah ReportUtah Utah s total births keep rlsmg rising risingwith rlsmgwIth nsin ; with the years and the mcrease increase mcreasem increasein mcreasiin m in amongthe population The deaths among amon ; the younger persons are on the thedecrease thedecrease thidecrease decrease and thus the average averageage averagiage averageage age of its residents is rising rIsmg proportionately pro proportIonately proportionately portIonately with that of the na natIon nation nation tIon _ In 1940 Utah hadi705l had -i705l i705l _ - i705lbIrths 17 1705births 051 051births bIrths (16 16 (16043 16043 ( 043 of these werp wen were " tostate tstate to state residents ) and 5 141 deaths death death(4 death4 s (4 4 ( 726 state residents ) Thisgives This ThisgIves Thigives gIves us a birth rate of 261 26 1 per pe r pe1000 1 000 population one of thethree ththree the thethree three highest in m the nation On Onthe Onthe 0 : the other hand the death rate rateof rateof ratof of 7 6 places Utah with the three threelowest threelowest thre lowest Ten Te agothe ago the birth h was Z11 and death deathrate deathrate rate 9 8 per 1 000 person persons ; personsUtah1s personsUtahis Utah's Utahs Utah1s Utahis ' high birth rate coupled coupledwIth coupledwith couplewith wIth its low death rate gIves a abIrth abirth bIrth givesbirth ratio raho or vital index mdex of c331 if 331 births to 100 deaths the thehIghest thehighest thughest hIghest ratio raho in m the UniteStates UniteStatesFor Umted United UmtedStates UnitedStates States StatesFor For several years the same sameseven sameseven samseven seven diseases have ranked rankedhIghest rankedhighest rankehighest hIghest in m the state and in m thfollowing the thefollowmg thefollowing followmg following order Heart dIseases dIseasescancer diseasescancer diseasecancer cancer accidents cerebral hem hemorrhages henorrhages hemorrhages orrhages nephritis and pneumonia pneu pneumoma pnevmonia moma monia Heart disease alone canses can calis cans calises : es 30 per cent of all deaths and andIS andis anis IS distinctly dlstmctly on the increase The Thefirst Thefirst Thfirst first three causes named togeth together togetl-er togetl er - er cover one half of all our ourdeaths ourdeaths 01deaths deaths In infant mfant and maternal maternald matern ; d seases We \ \ e rank among thelowest the thelowest thlowest lowest in m the country but there thereIS theris IS still room for much Improve Improvement improvement improvement ment in m protecting protectmg the health ofthe of ofthe ( .the the . the mothers and the childrenSafety childrenSafety children childrenSafety Safety First has for sevelal se\er se er sever seeral several \ al years been a slogan that hds has hdsaIded hasaided he-aided he aided - aIded in m reducing reducmg the rumb rumbdr rumber < ! r tfaccidental L tf taccidental , aCCIdental deaths Nevertheles Nevertheless ; 410 accidental deaths are far toomany tomany too toomany many for the resident's residents resIdent " ' of thIS thISstate thisstate thistate state to tolerate and when we weinclude winclude . mclude include the deaths of persons ' persorkilled personskilled kIlled while traveling througor through throughor or temporarily temporanly living hVIng in m thestate the thestate thstate state the total reaches 547 The Therallroad Therailroad Thrailroad rallroad railroad accident o 0 last December Decem December Decerrher ber and the aircraft crashes ac account account account count for a majority of the non nonresIdent nonresident norresident grouAccidents groupAccIdents resIdent deaths in m this group ] AccIdents in m the home constItute const ut28 28 per cent of all aCCIdental aCCIdentaldeaths accidentaldeaths accidentsdeaths deaths in m the state and notable notableIn notabiin In thI this class are 72 7.2 . persons 65 65years 65years 6years years of age or older who diedfrom diefrom died diedfrom diedI from falls Thirty per cent of the theaccIdental theaccidental thaccidental I accIdental deaths were of per persons persons peisons sons at work when the accIdent accIdentoccurred accidentoccurred accideroccurred occurred And look at the 3drownmgs 32 32drowmngs 32drownings drowmngs drownings drowmngs17 drownings17 - -17 17 - 17 under 10 years yearsof yearsof yealof of age 24 undei undel 20 ) iears years ears and andeIght andeight an.eight aneight . eIght of the drownings drownmgs mSIde inside mSIdethe insidethe msidthe the home homes ' The majority maJonty of the thdrownings thedrownmgs thedrownings drownmgs drownings occurred in m Irrlga irriga hon tion irngation Irrlgahon irrigation ditches or canals and prac duto dueto tIcally practically all drowning rownm > : \ ' . ere rille due [ to cal caielessness elessness on the th p pirt pwt 1rt of ofsome osome : some pelson poison pei son sonThe Isome -jocommunicable jocommunicable mjocommunicable pelsonThe poisonThe The decrease in m ti 1 " > m.jol mjol m4joi m4joicommunicable m.jolcommu11lcable m . < - commu11lcable communicable disease deathsgives deaths deaths'gIves deathgives gives us confidence that 'ventu ventu 'ventuallJ " ' ventunll ventually 'gIves gIves ' \\ibecome diseaseibecome IIIbecome willbecome nll allJ some of these tresc disease " , ; . will \ \ III ] become leally cally ieally 1 rare Many of our ouryounger ouryounger ouyounger younger physicians have no op opportunity opportU'1Ity opportu portU'1Ity portU1Ity portu ' uty to become famIliar famIliarIth famiiiavnth familiarwith \\Ith Ith with \ such diseases as smallpox smallpoxdiphtheria dIphtherIa fevelTwo feverTwo or typhoid fever Two generations ago these dl di diseases diseases dlseases thioug'whole thiougwhole throughwhole seases ran unchecked through tin oug ! ] ' whole families and even com corn commum cornmunitses cornmumties mum munitses safetyfIrst tIes The slogan of safety safet ; first should by no means birestricted be berestrIcted berestricted restrIcted to checking accIdent accidental al deaths Typhoid fever for In Instance instance instance stance almosto almostto has been reduced almost to zero but only by constanwatchfulness constant constantWatchfulness atchfulness Watchfulness \ \ can it be constantI kept at I athat atthat that low point pomt The tuberculo tuberculosis SIS death rate in m the Umted United UnitecStates UmtedStates UnitedStates States has alwavs always been l11ghcI lughei highcithan l11ghcIthan lugheithan than that of Utah but both the thecountry thecountry thicountry country and state show decreasmg decreas decreasmg decreasing mg late rate ovei Ovel tl'e tle tre the ' ) iears years ears Occaa Occaaionally Occa Occalonally " lonally ionally Ion ally we have rarer discas'rates discasrates dlstas discas " ' ra ehad sehad rates tes d during urmg the past ye yeai , ll i\ i \ se \ e < thie'from thiefrom had one death fiom flom I labies abies rabies thl thie e ' spottecfever spottedfever from Rocky Mountain spotted fever and two from tularemia tularcmiaGreater tularemiaGreater savecthe savedthe Greater care carc . might lave 1 I ave saved the lives of these persons personsWith With nearly the same deathrate death deathrate deatl-rate deatl rate - rate as typhoid tJ < phOId fever in m 1910cancer 1910 1910cancer 1910cancer cancer deaths in Utah have leg ieg ularl ularly legularii legularl iegularly deathshave ) risen and t typhoid ) phOId deaths have Safetyfirst as steadily fallen Safety fIrst can be of sel seivice service vice here PhysIcIans herePhysicians tell tis f1s fis that early and andoft andoft andoft oft repeated examinations exammatIons will willsave willsave save many persons fiom flom from death by deathby this dread diseaseFrom disease -From From - From July FromJuly Issue of Your Health FromI I |