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ANNUAL EEPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1910. 



ing. We meet with the same phenomenon in certain cities; so London, 

 Copenhagen, and Hamburg have curves of decrease, while Paris, on 

 the contrary, has a high-lying curve which shows but little tendency 

 to descend (Table 4). 



Table 5. — Mortality from consumption at Hamhurg. 



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France has a death rate from consumption that is especially un- 

 favorable. In cities of more than 5,000 inhabitants, the only ones 

 for which statistics are available, 27 out of every 10,000 persons die 

 of this disease, and there was no decrease in the years from 1901 to 

 1906 (so far as the data have been published). 



