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early diagnosis and prompt treatment can only be obtained
if early resort is made to a medical practitioner. It is therefore
important that the public should appreciate the seriousness
of delay in this disease, which is painless and insidious
in its origin in individuals and is increasing equally insidiously
amongst the population.
Respiratory Diseases.
113 deaths were due to Bronchitis, 98 to pneumonia,
and 21 to other respiratory diseases. The corresponding
figures for 1920 were:—Bronchitis, 101; pneumonia, 97;
other respiratory diseases, 16.
The following Table, No. 9, shows the number of deaths
each year since 1917 from respiratory diseases, the annual
death-rate, the number of deaths under 5 years, and the
percentage of deaths occurring in children under 5 years of age.

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