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Show OGDEN HIGH IN IMSCORE One of First Six in Country With Grading Over 700 1 Ogden with a score of 711 points I holds second place of all cities and town m the state in the number and efficiency of the measures taken to control venereal diseases, Bait Lake leads the state with 769 points. Denver Den-ver made c?3. Colorado Springs 01. ban FranciSCO. 750. Dos Angeles 6.0. ; Hone 331. and Reno 6. These i allot-' are disclosed in a recent re-cent survey mads by the United states public to iHh servlm of the 444 laic- est cities of the country. The scores are based upon s possible 1000 points. The data obtained wers In answer 10 j approximately 300 questions regarding regard-ing medical, legal, educational and general co-operntlvc measures In force' I in these communities on February 1. 1 1820. Authorities issuing the report call attention t- the fact that the grades I by no means indicate the amount ol 1 'venereal disease existing in these a ' .' rlous citlcV Some cities may be grad 1 ed high because they have had so j much venereal disease and prostitution prostitu-tion thai it has been necessary to in- j augurato vigorous measures for com-, bating them, while some small cities may be . graded low because It has: I seemed unnecessary to them to estab-l 1 llsh clinics and adopl th.- other meas-1 I ures for which high grades are award-sd. award-sd. I Portland. OregO.nt with a grade of I 795, made the best showing. Six other oth-er Cities grading over 700 are Salt j j Dake Pity, 1 icrt.-n, ;-:ntd KapbH, 1 . .Moines, Taconia, San Francisco andi Spoan f the ten cities classed as; having 500.000 or more inhabitants, j Detroit leads with s score of 614; Los Angeb-s Is second, with 670 and New , York thud with 527. Baltimore is I sixth with 414 and Chicago seven tn : with 408. Washington scored 407( points. I The public health service announces I that another survey will be made of 1 th- same cities cat ly in 1921. |