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Show uu PROPORTIONATE DEATH RATE LOW The state board of health has just Issued the February bulletin, showing the contagious disease reports as received re-ceived from local and district health Officers, and an incomplete mortality report, compiled from the returns made by local registrars The follow-1 follow-1 Ing statistics are taken from the bi I let in Total deaths from all causes 391 ol which 134 were in Salt Lake City, death reports re-j ceived too late to bo included In the January bulletin, 18 districts reporting re-porting no deaths 110. total number of towns and districts reporting. 19$; localities free- from contagious dls- J effes, 64. Rcarlet fever cases. 19C; . with four deaths. smallpox cases. 40f. with two deaths, diphtheria and membraneous croup 20 cases, with j four deaths, typhoid fever. 13 cases.1 with one death; whooping cough, 246 enses. with five deaths; measles .14 c;ues with twenty-five death9, incomplete in-complete report of pneumonia cases. 23 with thirty-six deaths; tuberculosis, tubercu-losis, nine new cases and twelve I denth9 (report of tuberculosis cases incomplete" -hows an Increase of l n deaths as compared with February, 1912 an Increase of 190 smallpox i leases, an increase of two typhoid fev-1 er cases an increase of sixteen chick, jenpox cases, an Increase of 1 cases! of pneumonia and two of consump-' tion On the other hand the report I 'shows a decrease of 128 whooping j cough raseB and twenty-four cases of diphtheria. |