DIPHTHERIA 



101 



one of the Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums 

 Board. It proves the importance of giving the 

 antitoxin at once, without delay, so soon as the 

 disease shows itself : 



Here is a similar table, from the Biennial Report 

 of the Chicago Health Department for 1904-5, 

 page 137 : 



There is reason to hope, that Science will be 

 able, in a very few years, to get rid, almost or 

 altogether, of such defects as are in the present 



