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Credit: Diphtheria: its natural history and prevention. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![haviour of diphtheria in large urban centres as opposed to the more rural areas, or again, to the circumstance that the data relate only to such throat disease as has been recognised to be unmistakable diphtheria, I am, as yet, not prepared to say. TABLE No. VI. i DIPHTHERIA. Notified Attacks and Registered Deaths in 15 Large Towns AND Cities of England. 1888-90. Months. 1888. 1889. i8go. Total. Attacks. Deaths. Attacks. Deaths. Attacks. Deaths. Attacks. Deaths. January 94 34 191 65 163 54 4481 00 404 r^ 406 J • 153I ^ February . 93 31 164 59 147 48 138 v5 March . . 103 34 152 52 151 46 I32J ^ April . . 85 23 93 37 159 44 3371 ^o 392 \ 8 276 J - i°4l ^ May . . 89 21 151 34 152 48 103 ^^ June 74 13 75 26 127 31 70J ^ July . . 51 21 165 5& 172 47 3881 0 '0^1 0 August. . 95 26 121 27 lOI 33 317 \'S 8^2 September 92 21 167 37 176 42 435 J 100 J October . 125 56 229 56 207 57 561) r. ^69U November 161 52 143 42 176 42 480^^ 136 l^ December. Total . 134 51 145 52 122 40 401 j 143 J ^ 1196 1 383 1796 543 1853 532 4845 1458 1 Diphtheria: Attacks and Deaths during the three years 1888, 1889, and 1890, in the following 15 towns :— Birkenhead. Halifax. Nottingham. Blackburn. Huddersfield. Oldham. Bolton. Leicester. Preston. Bradford (Yorks). Manchester. Salford. Derby. Newcastle-on-Tyne. Sunderland. \Attacks taken from Weekly Notification Returns. Deaths from the Registrar-General's Weekly Returns].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21205814_0048.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
