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Show ACCEPT AID BY FEDERAL ACT Utah to Receive $5000 Yearly Under Sheppard-Towner Sheppard-Towner Law 8AL.T LAKE, Dec. 9 Utah, through Govornor Mabey haa acoepted the provisions pro-visions of the Kheppn rd-Towner act Jwhieh 'will rsi:!t In i i insldi ra' d l-'T'-jflt to mothers and infants tn this state, according to Dr. T B Beatty, state health commissioner. Under the provisions pro-visions of the act the state is entitled to $5,000 per annum from tho federal iKovernment without conditions and to nn additional $8,000 If an SQIial oum is appropriated per year by the iMtato leglalHture. Tho acceptance of tho full amount by this state would therefore moan that the noxt legislature legisla-ture would havo to make an appropriation appro-priation of $8,000 per year to take advantage ad-vantage of the full allotment. Statistics compiled by th state health board for 1920 show that there were 1,011 Infant deaths In 110. Of theso a number worn prcventablo and need not have been sacrificed, according accord-ing to tho commissioner. A condition equally regrettable Is shown In the records of maternal I deaths: 17 from accidents of pregnancy, preg-nancy, 14 from puerperal hemorrhage. 12 from other accidents of labor. 223 (from puerperal septicemia, 20 from puerporol albuminuria and convulsions convul-sions 7 from puerperal phlegmasia alba al-ba dolene, embolus sudden death, 2 following childbirth ('not otherwise, defined). de-fined). Dr. Beatty has outlined the objectives objec-tives sought by the bureau of child hygiene of tho state board of health 'in a letter sent out today to all sections sec-tions of the state with a view of having hav-ing the local organizations take up th ifidvantages of establishing local health (centers unde.r th board of health. Tho purpose of the Sheppard-Town-er Act and the aim of tho Bureau of Child Hygiene of the State Board of c4 Health, which Is acting In co-operation with the Federal Bureau of Maternity Ma-ternity and Infancy. Is the education of mothers In order that the enormous destruction of Hfo and human efficiency effi-ciency may be Intelligently controlled. |