CITY REPORTS FOR WEEK ENDED JUNE 9, 1923—Continued. DIPHTHERIA, MEASLES, SCARLET FEVER, AND TUBERCULOSIS—Continued.

CITY REPORTS FOR WEEK ENDED JUNE 9, 1923—Continued. DIPHTHERIA, MEASLES, SCARLET FEVER, and tuberculOSIS—Continued.

CITY REPORTS FOR WEEK ENDED JUNE 9, 1923—Continued. DIPHTHERIA, MEASLES, SCARLET FEVER, AND TUBERCULOSIS-Continued.

CITY REPORTS FOR WEEK ENDED JUNE 9, 1923—Continued.

DIPHTHERIA, MEASLES, SCARLET Fever, and TUBERCULOSIS-Continued.

FOREIGN AND INSULAR.

AUSTRIA.

Births and Deaths, 1910-1922.

The figures given in the table below were furnished by the vital statistics bureau of the city of Vienna. They show very vividly the effect of the World War on the birth and death rates in that city.

In 1915, the second year of the war, the death rate increased considerably, and it continued increasing with each new hardship and privation of war until 1918, in which year it reached its highest point, 51,497 deaths (as compared with 32,314 in 1913). In 1915 the number of births decreased to 31,686, and fell to 21,127 in 1918, the year of the highest death rate.

Improvement of conditions was noted in 1919, the first post-war year, with 40,932 deaths and 27,451 births. In 1921 the number of births again exceeded the deaths, as was also the case in 1922.

Among the causes of death, tuberculosis ranks first, with 11,531 deaths in 1918 (about 22 per cent of the total) and 5,552 deaths in 1922 (about 19 per cent of the total). Influenza, which raged in many parts of the world in 1918, also added heavily to the extraordinary death rate in Vienna in 1918.

In 1910 the population of Vienna was 2,031,498, as compared with 1,841,326 in 1920. In 1916 the population was 2,220,511.

Births and deaths in Vienna from 1910 to 1922.

A statement made, May 21, 1923, by the president of the London (Ontario) Health Association shows that, according to the Dominion of Canada census of 1901, the deaths from pulmonary tuberculosis