The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-11
FEBRUARY DEATH
RATE DECREASES
Mortality Record Last Month
Lowest For Three Year
Period.

During the month of February there
were only eighty-f1ve deaths in Salt
Lake, which is a decided decrease from
the mortality of the past three years.
In February, 1909, there were ninety
Two deaths, lis deaths in 1908 and los in
1907. Figured on a population of $1,000
for Salt Lake, the death rate per LOCO
Tor the month just past was ten, as
compared with 1886 for last year. There
were no suicides during the month.
Pneumonia was the most fatal of all
diseases as it claimed ten victims dur
ing the month; tuberculosis of the lungs
claimed six, cancer five, organic heart
disease three, and other diseases claim
ing one or two victims. OF the deaths,
'fifty-twO were males and thirty-three
females. and among these two were
coiored. Seventeen of the deaths were
of Salt Lake natives. twenty were ma
tives of Utah outside of Salt Lake,
thirteen came from states other than
Utah, thirty were of foreign birth and
five are recorded with nativity un-
known.
OF the eighty-five deaths. forty-one
were of single persons, twenty-five mar
ried, fourteen widowed, two divorced
and three unknown. During the month
seven children died under the age of
H.
one year, two between the ages of and
) years. six from > TO j. years, nine
from Is TO % years. nineteen from % to
- years, twenty-one from As to 65 years,
thirteen from 90 TO So years, and one
more than 50 years old.
There were twenty nOn-residents who
died in the city during the month, and
twenty-five bodies were sent away for
burial. Thirty-One bodies were brought
here for interment.
A total of PIG births was recorded dur
ing the month, of which 103 were males
and 116 females. one being a colOred
child. The report shows that IA mar
riage licenses were issued during the
month.
The report shows 140 cases of con-
tagiOus or infectious diseases reported
TO the board during the month, headed
by scarlet fever with IS cases; small
pox, 10; chickenpoX, 10; diphtheria, Z;
tuberculosis, /; measles, 9; pneumonia,
4; whooping cough, 8. The distribution
of scarlet fever by wards was as fol-
lows First. %; Second, Is; Third, 10;
Fourth, II, and Fifth, Is. No cases of
typhoid fever were reported.
The appended report of James z.
Flynn, chief sanitary inspector, shows
fOrty-One complaints received and at
tended to. ninety-nine garbage COM
plants received and attended to, forty
one visits and inspections made, TWEEN
ty-nine written notices served, $40 cess
pools, vaults and grease traps cleaned,
forty notices served to connect with
sewer, eighty-siX sewer connections
made, twenty-five inspections of sewer
connections, 800 loads of garbage de-
stroyed at the crematory, thirty-One
horses destroyed, four COWS, eighty-six
dogs and three calves.
The report of the dairy and food COM
missioner, Walter j. Frazier, shows in
spectiOns as follows: Fish markets,
81; grocery stores, 1856; commission
houses, 100; bakeries, A: hotels, %; res
taurants, PA; dairies, IS; candy manu-
facturers. 6: milk depOts, 5: milk plants.
4. Ten pounds of food We're condemned.
one prosecution was started and one
man found guilty. City Chemist Her
man Harms examined seventy-fOur
samples of various foods.