Show 11 i Spotlighting Spot 1 19 h. h I LUTA UTAH I UTAH II DISEASES I SHOW DECLINE t The State Health Department releases released d 1 a report recently which shows that there 1 has not been a case of smallpox recorded in Utah during the past two years Typhoid fever lever dropped to an time all low during the period and the incidence of whooping cough during the two year period was the lowest since records of the disease were started d back in 1000 1900 Of the preventable diseases diphtheria was wu the only one reported as having got out of control During the first year of the he biennium 10 16 cases and 3 deaths were recorded and during the second year cases and 11 Il d deaths Commenting on the situation the department spokesman spokes man said This diphtheria epidemic epidemic- re resulted resulted resulted re- re from a combination of causes but the most important factor was insufficiency clency of immunization during the past several years The report shows that five ive years ago people were being immunized annually for diphtheria while the number had decreased to last year ear Distinguishing between diseases preventable preventable preventable pre pre- by immunization and those classed as unpreventable for which no immunization had hall been developed such as as chickenpox measles and mumps the report shows dIseases di diseases dl dI- occurred in relative large num num- bers During the first year of the biennIum biennium bien- bien there were cases of poliomyelitis ll- ll and cases of measles Figures for the second year were not complete UTAH INDUSTRY ON TUB TilE MOVE lOE Several hundred business men from all aU sections of the state visited the new seven leven million dollar cement factory at Croyden when the plant held an open house after alter its completion by the Ideal Cement company This highly modernized modernIzed modern- modern zed plant takes the gray limestone from the mountains of the community and turns turm it into a fine construction I cement at the rate of barrels per day The old plant still in production puts out 2000 barrels per day New storage capacity has been provided for barrels of cement BUILDING UP VI IN UTAH During the first eight months of 1948 dwelling building construction permits amounted to a volume of 01 in Utah which was six million dollars more than for the same period last year In Salt Lake City for this same period tho permits amounted to compared with for the same period in the previous year In Salt Bait Lake City new units were started in the eight month 1948 1940 period compared with units during the same period In 1947 1941 TAX X COLLECTION SHOW UK Inn GAIN O Tax collections by the State Tax Commission CommissIon Commission Com Com- mission for the year ending June 30 1948 amounted to This amount is three times as great as the collections made by the same commission commission commis commis- sion slon back In 1936 1938 In 1936 1938 the cost of collections amounted to on the dollar dollar dol dol- lar while the 1948 job w waS wai done at atla i a acost cost of per dollar collected Taxes collected by the commission are Sales and use taxes gasoline individual in In- In Income taxes corporate franchise franchise fran fran- chise taxes motor vehicle registration fee and inheritance taxes During the 1948 fiscal year tax Items were collected UTAH FARM FAUSI WAGE AVERAGE GE USES RISES A release from the Bureau Dureau of ot Agricultural Agricultural Agricultural Agri Agri- cultural Economics in Washington places the average Utah farm wage at month This figure is high compared with the average given for July of 01 this year and average for July of 1947 October 1947 was placed at By fly way of comparison the average prevailing farm wage in other western states were as quoted as Idaho Montana Nevada Arizona Wyoming Colorado and New Mexico I 1 |