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Show Birth Rate Shows Increase The number of births in American Ameri-can Fork far exceeded the obituaries according to Mrs. Ann L. Chipman, local registrar, the stork doing almost al-most twice the work of the grim reTherre were 88 births during the year of 1937. Of this number 68 were cared for at the Community hospital. The remaining twenty babies were born in homes The babies were almost evenly divided as to six, there being forty-two boys and forty-six girls Of the forty six burials in the American Fork cemetery, twenty ne were local deaths while the remataU seventeen died outside thT c ty. Many of those brought m from other communities were born hThese statistics do not present an acTuratVcomparison of births and deaths inasmuch as some babies bom locally were Lehi and Pleasant Grove families. Sie f rst babies born in American Fork in 1938 in and out of the : hos-are hos-are t.oys Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd M ller are the proud parents of a SSTbJ orn in the local hoj qundav January 2nd at 2.50 p. m-Mr m-Mr and Mrs. Bert Laycock are the fC r,f a bov born at tneir happy parents of a boy d home Tuesday, January p. m. |