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In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it has become, to use the phrase of Bunyan 'the captain of the men of death.'

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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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