Show I BEATTY PRAISES UTAH HEALTH Head Heild Of Utah State Board Of Health Praise Progress Made l In State In Address Before Gathering Of Health Officers In an address before the conference conference conference confer confer- ence of state and provincial health au authorities which recently met in Washington Dr T. T B. B Beatty traced the progress in public health work in Utah He declared that in the Ule nineties the typhoid death rate in Salt Lake Lale City Cit reached 67 with an annual annual annual an an- nual average of 50 per population At the same time the average f for r the UlC state was practically practically practically the same The rate for intestinal in intestinal intestinal in- in diseases for children was correspondingly high The State Board of Health was created in 1898 Since then an an organized warfare has been waged waged waged wag wag- ed against disease in the state The result has been an increase in the average term of life from five to seven fifty-seven years Improved water supply with water water water wa wa- ter delivered to the people under sanitary conditions is declared by Dr Beatty to be an important factor in thIs tills increase The death deaUl rate from typhoid said Dr Beatty has been reduced ed to 24 per population with a reduction of 75 per cent in the intestinal diseases of children children children chil chil- dren which is still far from the goal set Dr Beatty told of the work worle done for the control of goiter In Inthe inthe the state declaring the incidence of thyroid enlargement found in 1 school children to be per cent Tuberculosis was declared not notto notto notto to be a major problem in Utah the death rate from that t disease being one of the lowest in the country Health work in the public schools was shown to be backward backward backward back back- ward due to lack of funds a situation situation situation sit sit- which has hampered public public public pub pub- lic health work ork in general all over the state Even the free immunization immunization immunization clinics clinis for school pre-school children children chil chil- dren have been dropped for lack of finance The maternal death rate in the Ute state was said to have dropped on page four DR BEATTY PRAISES HEALTH OF UTAH Continued from page 1 32 per cent Deaths from diphtheria diphtheria diphtheria theria have dropped 80 per cent Dr Beatty declared that In Increased Increased increased In- In creased undernourishment of children children chil chil- dren Is noted in Utah which he charged to the depression He bemoaned a a. tendency to curtail activities of health departments departments departments depart depart- ments in behalf of alleged economy economy economy my which is already manifest and will no doubt increase The functions functions functions of health departments have to do with intangible values as viewed by the public therefore their budgets are liable liable- to be the first lr af at Q O tf o I Not 1 NT f h. h ith h. h V af tandi o v w s rig the need for economy Dr Beatty declared that this was no place to practice it because the need now is greater than ever before and much ground that has been gained will be lost If stringency gets the upper hand Dr Beatty Is president of the group to whom the address was made |