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connection with the old Parish, as well as the new Borough, and
are shewn below, as far as mortality from the disease is
concerned.
Even allowing for the slight fallacy that may arise from comparing
statistics of the old Parish with those of the new Borough
of Lambeth, the extraordinary sudden decrease in the mortality
from Diphtheria is again 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 marked decline in the prevalence of
Diphtheria throughout the Borough of Lambeth during 1907, as
well as during 1906, 1905, 1904, 1903, 1902 and 1901 ; and
that, too, although Diphtheria had been rising slowly but surely
in epidemic proportions for the previous 20 years ending 1900
(vide table below). The statistics for London, as a whole, are
no less remarkable.