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Prevalence of Certain Diseases.—There are no
means at present of gauging the prevalence of disease,
other than notifiable disease, except by the death rates,
and even this method is not reliable as the fatality rates
vary in different diseases, and again, in the same disease
from time to time. It is to be hoped, however, that when
the Nationial Insurance Act statistics come to be published,
some clearer light will be thrown on the incidence of the
various diseases on the insured and general populations.
The following Table, No. 63, shows the number of
deaths during the past ten years from the diseases
specified:—