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Show oo DEATH RATE IN UTAH AND ELSEWHERE. The department of commerce has issued a bulletin on the mortality statistics of the states where registration regis-tration of deaths Is approximately complete, embracing nearly two thirds of the population of the United States Twenty-two states are recorded, including in-cluding Utah. Utah ranks third in low death rate, being slightly below Washington and Minnesota. There has been a decrease de-crease in the death rate In this state since 1911 of a small fraction of a per cent, the table of deaths being computed by thousands The highest mortality is In the eastern states, Maryland, Rhode Island, Is-land, and New York, being almost 50 per cent greater than in Utah With a death rate of 10 6 per thousand in this state, Maryland has 15.7 per thousand Tuberculosis continues to be the great reaper, tnougn that disease showB a most favorable reduction. Then comes heart diseases, Bright s disease and pneumonia. Typhoid fever is being conquered. SJnce 1905, the deaths from that disease dis-ease ha9 been cut in half, although our rate is still higher than some European countries The report says: "Nothing is more easy, with adequate ade-quate support of proper health administration, ad-ministration, than to reduce greatly the typhoid mortality of the communities communi-ties that still show high rates from this cause, and thus to contribute to decrease in the national toll of untimely un-timely deaths and costly illness paid to this strictly preventable disease " Ten years from now, with typhoid vaccination and sanitary' precautions, the disease should disappear. Our southern cities continue to pay-heavy pay-heavy death tolls, Memphis, Nashville, Nash-ville, Richmond, New Orleans, Atlanta, Atlan-ta, Birmingham and other places have a death rate more than double that of Ogden. Ogden compared with any of the large cities is a health resort. oo |