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Dr. Kerr attributed this increase to exacerbation in the type, and epidemicity of the disease.

From Prisoners Their Own Warders A Record of the Convict Prison at Singapore in the Straits Settlements Established 1825 by McNair, John Frederick Adolphus

It is far more deadly than tuberculosis and carries off every year nearly, if not quite, as many lives as influenza at the height of its epidemicity.

From Religion And Health by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

It follows that neither school attendance nor sewer gas exercises such an important influence over the epidemicity of diphtheria as some other conditions.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various