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Show Utah is taking advantage of health programs Utah appears to be a healthful health-ful place to live, and public and private health agencies are generally coordinating their efforts ef-forts to keep it so, according to a research report released this week by Utah Foundation. The Beehive State has maternal ma-ternal and infant death rates among the lowest in the nation, a very low over-all death rate, one of the lowest rates of venereal ven-ereal disease, and is the first state to undertake a long-range campaign aimed at total elimination eli-mination of tuberculosis. On the other hand, Utah appears to have special problems with some chronic diseases. The incidence in-cidence of diabetes is double that of the nation, and Utah has the worst record of all the states in deaths from rheumatic rheuma-tic fever and rheumatic heart disease. Comparisons with past records rec-ords show the effectiveness of public health programs carried car-ried out cooperatively by public pub-lic health agencies, private medical practice, and the community com-munity the Foundation report re-port notes. In 1910, leading disease-killers in Utah were tuberculosis, tu-berculosis, cancer, typhoid, scarlet fever, diphtheria, and whooping cough. In 1966, Utah recorded no deaths from typhoid, ty-phoid, scarlet fever, diphtheria, or whooping cough. The death |