Ogden Evening Standard | 1910-10-11 | Page 4 | Death Rate on Decrease

!l DEATH RATE ON DECREASE. The death rate for the United States, so far a3 the records are kept, is now only 15 a year to the 1,000 population this being the lowest so far known in history. The death rate for children, however, how-ever, is increasing. Nearly one-fifth of all deaths are of babies under a year old, and there is room for much reform here. Consumption has long been the main cause of death, but in the last year pneumonia has crept up on it till it has practically the same record.