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Show I UTAH IS FIRST I II BIRTH RATE Public Health Journal Reviews Conditions Throughout State Utah Is annually proving "its best crop.-' More babies are born yearly per thousand population In the state than in any other stale in the union, according to information published In the October issue of the Utah Public Health Journal, just off thc press. This Issue of thc magazine is replete BBBB with information and statistics dealing iHH with the health problem and the vital' UH Welfare of the slate. James H. Wallls. I BIB editor of the Journal, has published a ft. list of data undei th. title, "Utah M Leads In frfi lUIi Teaching," In which, BBz quoting from thc c ensus bureau re-j ports, he states. "The birth rate per gHftft WOO population, as ascertained in the, HJKI total registration area of the United Kgfji States, 1.- '4. I The state wjth thr larg- K&N est birth rate is Utah, with Jl J per' 1U00 population BHlI "In the matter of the rate of infant 1 Htflfl mortality that is, the number ofj deaths of infants under 1 year of age BXMm per 1000 born alive the country's reg- KSkS latratlon area gives the average num- RnH her at 101. The state with the lowest BB record is Utah, with a rate of sixty- Thai department of the magazine BmBb devoted to the work of the nurses em- BhMB ployed by the Utah Public Health as- HHH SOClatlen recounts the I'rogress of (he HflBJ various communities in the state in health n ork Articles are contributed h alias Hose HenJnger, supervisins:, nurse of the city bo:ird of he..lth; Missi Spphic K T -irsen. public health nurse Hfin for "VA eber county, and by various pub- jsmB lie health nurses throughout the state. aBjre fhia department is onducted by Miss H Innic P Arthur, slate supervising 1 nurse. The health exhibit :it the stjte I air Chow-chow, the health clown, :ind the annual Christmas seal sale : are featured, . M v uh ftie excepuon.' of General J'cr-shlng. J'cr-shlng. Hanford McNider, of Iowa, has M more decoration than any other Amer-Igan Amer-Igan who serxed in the United Slates |