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Show I 1IGH TRIBUTE TO 1 UTAH'S HEALTH Famous Writer Reviews Conditions Con-ditions Relative to This j State V Htsh tribute In Utah's health nie.is- V Utt-s in comb.itlng the mistaken Idea Qiat a high death rate lg a ru-cessnry concomitant In any community that has a high birth rale, la paid bj Dr I NV. A Kvans health writer In the I Chicjigo Tribunf H Some spi-uk'is. according t(, t!n- H writer, claim that this is :i compenaa-J H tory m.-iNure provided by nature to H prevent over-production. Th cap of H the Kr nch-Canadian ' habitant" Is clt- H td. where there Is iin unusually h fill H birth rate, and also an unusually high H death rate among babies. The French PJb Canadians, according to Dr. Evans, Bay J v It Ih unjusi to compare their high Infant mortality rat.- with the low PJ rate prevailing In Ontario, an Bnglleh-PJ Bnglleh-PJ iperiking pro Ince. because th.-lr birth H rate Was nearly twice :s high as that PJ 'n Ontario, In a family of a dow 0 H children, they said,' It was necessary PJ that the ynunger he cared for by the PJ older children or else be neglected H And in cunt eipience many of them ; l BIRTB RATE LARGE. H "The best answer 1 have run a ros.s H comes from Utah," writes : Evui.s. PJ "Of all the states, ftah has the hlfihrst PJ birth rate, the lowest death rate and PJ Ica.v lekriefis among th- babies. H Ciolng back to 1917, In order to get H iway from the ahnormnl Conditions PJ brought about by Influeilsia, I find that H Utah had a death rate of 10.2 as eom- H pared with 14.2 for the country at H large PJ "In the same year their birth rate PJ wa 2" 3, nf compared with 2$ for the PJ country at laigv. The birth rate In PJ the country Inhabited almost vhollv PJ by Murmoitji was much higher still P Duchenne county had a birth rate of PM 62. R, twice that of th" country at largo; Oarfleld 51.5. Piute 51.5 and PJ Washington IB". H "Turning to the reportfl for infant P mortallt, which Is almost the t-ame pH us Infant elckneaa and almost the re- pH verse of Infant Well-being, we find pH that Salt Lake has the lowest infant pH mortality of any city of Its size and Is pB lurpassed o'lly by eleven clttee of any PB MSe. In fact. It ranked first among PH cltle-, of 50,000 to 100.000 and over Pl In 1917. First plan- among reglstra- pH tlon states In 1917 wa9 held by Mlnnc- PH sota. but 7tah was second Ilt. MSATT1 iMMI NTs. "Looktng over their vitality tables further. I find they rank well as to nil diseases, except typhoid fever and smallpox Water Is scarry and the temptation to drink out of Irrigation ditches Ik strong The t. mptatlon of the cities to use their few streams for both water supply and sewerage dls-posnl dls-posnl operates to spread typhoid fever HK from community to community." Pr BvanS ms there 1 n jir.Judlce In this xfa'i atralnst vaccination. in commenting on the statement of the writer. tr. T. II. Beatty, state health commissioner, yesterday pointed HJ; to the fact that the typhoid rate n HJI t'tah luaast year was one of th- lowest H In anj state. In 1&I7. the year for I which Ir. Kxans iote the statistics. ' there was a local condition in Salt I Iike, according to Dr. lhalty, which has since been cleared up. The con-I con-I dltlon of city water supplies noted by I I r livans is rapidly passing, according accord-ing to Dr. Beatty. "Dr. Eans," said Dr. Beatty, '"is, .n the whole, correct, excepting in his I I reference that we have an unusually I ' high typhoid rate. This applied in 1 the year In question to Salt Lake. In 1 1 which there was an annual local 1 prevalence of the disease However, the mortality from typhoid lever has, in en cut down 75 per cent since 1910, land the rate that prevailed before that time. INFANT MORTAUTE LOW. Infant mortality also has hown a great reduction during the ten-sear period The United Slates census report re-port for last year shows that Utah is tlOa not seeond, but first, in its low baby death rate. It may be stated that I'tah has the credit of having the most complete registration of vital statistics of an state In the union, both as to births and to deaths, and this was one of the firel states entitled to admission into the registration area. "Dr. Kvnns' reference to the use of water from contaminated sources has been true in many cases, and this wus one of the sources of Infection that caused the health authorities most difficulty dif-ficulty Greal progress has been made in the pnsl ten ears, however, and I'tah has probably Installed more sanifar) water systems In that time, j in proportion to population, than any 'other state. Pure water systems havi taken the place of the old deadly sur-1 sur-1 face well and Irrigation ditch. "Among the other improvements In I sanitation In I'tah, also, has been a j marked dec: ease In the prevalence of I hous- flies. For years campaigns have been carried on against the breeding places of flies in unsanitary corrals and the like, and existing con-. ; dltions show a vast improvement." |