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Wales in the year 1914. The fourth column gives the 

 rates for Sao Paulo for the year 1917. The data for the 

 United States Registration Area were extracted from 

 the volume of Mortality Statistics for 1916, issued by the 

 Bureau of the Census. The English data were extracted 

 from the Eeport of the Registrar General of England 

 and Wales for 1914. The Sao Paulo rates were calcu- 

 lated from data as to deaths and population given in the 

 "Annuario Demographico" of Sao Paulo for 1917. 



79 Organic diseases c 



, Acute endocarditis. . . 



Scarlet fever 



Congenital malformatii 



iction and sepl 



Yellow fever. . 



Nine of the items in Table I, namely items 77 to 85 in- 

 clusive, are those of rubric III of the International Class- 



» Less than 0.1 per 100,000. 



