Medicine

those with diabetes of early onset. (This is no doubt associated with the fact that large numbers of patients with diabetes of early onset are now reaching a relatively advanced age.) It is therefore ,possible that some deaths which would formerly have been certified as due to chronic nephritis are now certified as due to diabetes. All these considerations support the contention that chronic nephritis is not becoming less frequent in the population, but is only less often identified as the underlying cause of death. Kessner and Florey conclude: