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between the UK and the US. It also explains the time delay between white and
black households in the US. It also explains the Australian situation with the
potential to apply country by country and state by state.
The 2-4 year old cALL peak did not exist before domestic electric reticulation
occurred and was formed case by case after it did occur. As the proportion of
homes connected increased, then the new cALL peak mortality rate rose
proportionally. The formation of the year-3 peak and rise in leukaemia mortality is
confirmed, Figure 31. It went higher and higher over time.
Figure 31: Childhood leukaemia mortality for the United States whites by single
years of age 0-4, for each 10 years from 1920, Milham and Ossiander
(2001).
By obtaining the data in state by state development of electrical reticulation the
early childhood age-specific leukaemia rate plotted as a proportion of the number of
homes electrified. For the 1928 to 32 period this is in Figure 32 and the period
1949-52 in Figure 33.
Figure 32: Childhood leukaemia mortality rates for all races 1928-32, by percent of
residential electrification and age of death, Milham and Ossiander
(2001).