TYPHOID FEVER.
DECLINING DEATH-RATE. Pre** Association—Rlectric Tel-Graph—Copyneht-Received Thursday, at 9.15 a.m.) MELBOURNE, Thursday. Doctor Purdy, chief health officer for Tasmania, read a paper at the Science Congress on the reduction of typhoid fever in Australia. He shoAved that the death-rate from that disease had been reduced by one-third in the last thirty years. It was still, however, 15 per 100,000 for the decade ended 1910, whilst it was only 6.6 in New Zealand, .7.0 in England, 6.2 in Scotland, and 46.0 in the United States.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11561, 9 January 1913, Page 5
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85TYPHOID FEVER. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11561, 9 January 1913, Page 5
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