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Further observations on the relation of the decline in the number of horse-drawn vehicles to the fall in the summer diarrhoea death-rate

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

G. S. Graham-Smith
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From the Department of Pathology, Cambridge
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Ten years ago the writer (Graham-Smith, 1929) called attention to the relation of the decline in the number of horse-drawn vehicles, and consequently of the urban breeding grounds of flies, to the fall in the death-rate from summer diarrhoea in children under one year of age.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1939

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