Show utah is healthiest place in country there are fewer deaths rutih in proportion to the copulation than in any other elate in the union except kansas according to et corn piled by the united states census bureau these statistics were made public yesterday by sam L Jl director of the census and were prep red by richard C lappin chief statistician for vital the whole report shows the death rate for alie athole united stated to be the lowest on record this rate is per 1000 estimated tiomi of the registration area of the united states utah makes a better record than tins general average the census bureaus figures show that the death rate for this state is 10 1 for the year 1914 kansas was agnen the lowest with 9 8 and utah is next to the lowest rutih is alie healthiest state in the union according to computations at the board of health ofhie 1 I really believe that utah lias a lower ide uh rate than any other state said dr T B beatty secretary of the state board accompanying the governments figures are estimates of the population of each state the estimated population for kansas is and for utah these estimates gie kansas ai estimated increase of 22 per cent oer the 1910 census and give utah only 11 per cent increase dr beatty believes that the estimated increase in kansas is altogether too high for that the buth bu th rate in utah is 20 per cent higher than in kansas baid he and I 1 do not believe the increase in population from tion reaches a higher percentage than in utah making the proportionate increase in population in kansas the same ai the percentage of increase shown for utah would make the deith rate for that state in 1914 10 8 or seven tenolia higher than in utah for the iame vear supporting the assertion that utah has actually the lowe lowet t death rate in america is the report of the state hoard of health showing a decrease of 80 per cent in the number of ty fever cases T is looked upon hy health authorities as the barometer of public herlth absence of typhoid denotes admirable sanitary conditions and pure water supplies at the conclusion of the re cant jean town contest it was stated by dr beatty that the decrease in ti fever here had not been equalled equal led hy any other state he cited one the united states A tiny as the only one which has stamped it out more than the state of utah hag the census bureaus report gives utah a lower death rate than either colorado or california the only two of her immediate neighbors where agures were available to the bureau colorados death rate in 1914 was 11 2 and Cali fornias 13 6 per cent tribune |