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Show amounted to 67. Of this amount 52 were accounted for in the Bryce Canyon disaster. Mine and farm accidents took 36 lives and ten persons were electrocuted. Twenty-six persons lost their lives by drownings; firearms accounted for 14; fires killed 19 and seven persons died of poisonings. No deaths were listed in two categories, "hunger and thirst" and "lack of care for infants." UTAH'S VITAL STATISTICS RELEASED Vital Statistics for Utah for the year 1947 recently released by the State Health Department gives the following information: 2.1,400 births were recorded for the year an all-time high for Utah. Births averaged 32.1 for each 1,000 persons while the national average was 23. S for each 1,000 persons. The death rate was low enough to place Utah near the top in the national average with 4815 deaths for a population percentage percent-age of 7.39 while the national iverage was 10,9. The maternal deathsdnothers dying in childbirth) occurred with the loss of one mother in 1500, while in 1941 this death rate was three 1 imes as great with the loss of one mother in every 500. Infant deaths in 1947 amounted amount-ed to 27.3 per 1000 births. Heart disease was at the head of the list in the cause of deaths. Cancer was second in the list with accidental deaths a very close third. In the order of their importance, the other seven causes of death among the first ten were: cerebral hemorrhages, nephritis, premature births, disease of infancy, diabetes and congenital malformations. Air deaths for the year |