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Show u Utah Death Rate Grows Washington, D. C. Dec. 2. The department of commerce announces that the 1928 death rate for- Utah was 962.1 per 100,000 population as compared com-pared with 907.5 in 1927- Increases in rates (per 100,000 j population) from, those of the pre- j ceding year were from! the following principal causes: nephritis (57.8 to 67.6) , cancer (63.2 to 70.8), diabetes mellitus (10.0 to 14.3), and tuberculosis, tubercu-losis, all forms (27.4 to 27.9). Increases In-creases were shown also for influenza, influen-za, with its rate much more than tripled (19.5 to 73.4), congenital malformations mal-formations and diseases of early . in- ! fancy (78-9 to 81.9), meningococcus meningitis (3-4 to 15.6), whooping cough (4.0 to 6.8), typhoid and paraty phoid fever (3.4 to 4.0), and letnargic encephalitis (0.6 to 0.9). The death rate from all accidental causes increased from 74.7 to 83.1, the individual types of accidents showing the greatest increases being automobile accidents (excluding collisions col-lisions with railroad trains and street cars) (15.1 to 23.2), railroad accidents acci-dents (4.6 to 7.0), and accidental drowning (4.8 to 6. 8). Significant among the decreases in rates from 1927 to 1928 were those from the following principal causes: cerebral hemorrhage and softening (55.2 to 52.2) and diseases of the heart (137.0 to 134.7). Other decreases de-creases were for measles (21.8 to 0-2), diphtheria (10.7 to 3.2), erysipelas (5.9 to 1.9), acute anterior polonyeli-tis polonyeli-tis (4.2 to 1.5), scarlet fever (4.0 to 2.4), puerperal causes (18.5 to 11.9), appendicitis and typhlitis (22.4 to 17.7) , hernia, intesional obstruction (13 6 to 11.5), syphilis (7.5 to 5.6), and cirrhosis of the liver (4.2 to 3.6). I Among accidental causes, decreases decreas-es in rates were shown for streetcar accidents (2.9 to 0.4), burns (conflag1-ration (conflag1-ration excepted), (4.2 to 2.4), and mine accidents (9.2 to 8.9). The estimated 'population in 1928 ' was 531,009 and in 1927 was 522.000. |