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Show '' OGDEN AS A HOME There is a chart issued by the New H York fllk committee which should be H on the wall of every real estate dealer H in Ogden, It is a tabulated report of H i the health officers of the cities of the H United States, accompanied by a di- Hj agram made up of parallel black lines V, representing the Infant mortality rate. j There are cities with long black H lines extending almost across the H page, indicating an Infant mortality W of nearly 200. The line which marks K baby deaths of Ogden is next to the H!1 shortest, with an infant death rate K of Hj In New York city one death In every B; five is that of an infant. In Ogden, in H 1915, only one in seventeen was an Hi infant. H During 1915, the total deaths in Og- H den were 522, or a death rate of 17.4 Hl based on the 1910 census population of Hf 25,580, which should be 32,000, reduc- H ing the death rate to 16. B The deaths under one year, in 1915, B This is a 'remarkable showing arrl H proves Ogden to be a city where child j life is- safeguarded and given a H "square deal." H Ogden is the place for a home. |