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from Diphtheria is most remarkable, and, when taken in conjunction
with the equally extraordinary and equally sudden
decrease in the number of notifications of the same disease
received, points to a sudden decline in the prevalence of
Diphtheria throughout the Borough of Lambeth during 1904, as
well as during 1903, 1902 and 1901; and that, too, although
Diphtheria has been rising slowly but surely in epidemic proportions
for the previous 20 years ending 1900. The statistics
for London, as a whole, are no less remarkable.
Quinquennial
Period.
Population
(estimated).
Number of
Deaths.
Death-Rate per
million living.
Old Parish of
Boro'
Lambeth.
1863—1867
1868—1872
1873—1877
1878—1882
1883—1887
1888—1892
1893—1897
1898—1900
1901
1902
1903
1904
902119
1021165
1132106
1245913
1313211
1367734
1443857
924333
302533
305102
307711
310359
148
96
184
255
365
537
683
362
47
49
28
33
164
94
163
205
278
393
483
392
155
160
91
106
The age and sex incidence and mortality from Diphtheria
cases notified in the Borough of Lambeth during 1904 are as
follow:—