Washington County News | 1939-03-02 | Page 3 | Safety Talks

( Safety Talks j Can It Be the Climate? '"THERE'S something aboul west- era climate ! But Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast chambers cham-bers of commerce will file an indignant in-dignant disclaimer that the climate cli-mate had anything to do with this: The National Safety council's report re-port on 1937 shows a solid block of 11 western states, excepting Utah, had higher . accident death rates for the year than any other group of states in the country. Washington, Washing-ton, Oregon, California, Idaho, Nevada, Arizona, Montana, Wyoming, Wyo-ming, Colorado and New Mexico in each of these states an average of more than 100 persons, per 100,-000 100,-000 of population, suffered accident acci-dent deaths in 1937. Utah barely escaped the "100 or more" group with an average of 99.4. Florida (chambers of commerce please note) and Delaware were the only other states with an average aver-age of 100 or more accident deaths per 100,000 of population last year. Florida's average was 105.6, and Delaware's 105.7. Nevada's average of 137.6 deaths was the highest reported by any state. Rhode Island's average of 55.9 deaths was the lowest.