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from which it may naturally be deduced that the amount of
sickness and ill.health during the year has also been considerably
less than during 1901. For if one calculates that one in every
ten illnesses terminates fatally, it would seem to show that there
had been 3,460 less attacks of serious illness during the year.
Undoubtedly if this condition of things continues, and still
further increases, as it is sincerely hoped may be the case, it will
be a cause of considerable apprehension to the members of the
medical profession generally.
The figures, comparing the year 1909 with that of 1902 are
also very similar in character.