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1909]
DIPHTHERIA.
It is very satisfactory to find that only 31 deaths occurred during the year
from this disease. This number is 80 less than the corrected annual average
of the years 1885-1908 and is also 29 less than the return of the preceding year,
The deaths were in the proportion of 0.09 per 1,000 of the population, as
compared with a decennial rate of 0.21. The rate is below that of the
County of London, in which it was 0.13. TI.e decrease in the deaths from so
serious a disease must be a matter of congratulation, for it is not so long ago,
in a smaller population, that instead of being numbered by tens, they were
numbered by hundreds. Thus in 1891 there were 178 deaths; in 1893, 200,
in 1894, 218 and in 1896, 257, while so recently as 1901 they numbered 134,
and in 1902, 104.