On the Distribution of the Mortality from Influenza in England and Wales during Recent Years

a disease previously known to most of us only through the medical literature and traditions of a by-gone time. The last great epidemic of influenza in this country had been in 1847-8, but for the ten years following this there had still been a considerable number of deaths?over 1,000?year by year, with an increase every third or fourth year. Since 1860, however, the number of deaths in England and Wales ascribed to influenza had steadfastly declined to a vanishing-point, it being doubtful whether the few deaths