Dates of onset of decline of tuberculosis mortality in Norway, Scotland and Ireland.

–14, all tuberculosis ages 15+, measured over five year periods 1871–1955.1 Data refer to respiratory tuberculosis ages 0
‘8/10’ refers to the first period of a sequence of ten five year periods in which there was a decline recorded in eight or more periods.2
3Decade in which mortality first fell by 10% or more (either the first five year period of the decade (for Norway), or the ten year period between the years of recorded mortality (for Scotland and Ireland)).
4Data refer to all tuberculosis, reported for single years at decadal intervals 1861–1941.
5Data refer to all tuberculosis, reported for single years at decadal intervals 1871–1941.