Table 2 Values for 1990 and 2004 are shown for the following parameters for each decade of life: the number of patients who did not wait to be seen (DNW); the number of patients who did wait (obtained by subtracting columns 2 and 3 of this table from columns 2 and 3 of table 1); and the proportion of the patients who did wait and who were diagnosed and treated in less than one hour (D&T<1 h).

Age (years)	DNW		Waited		D&T<1 h
	1990	2004	1990	2004	1990	2004
0–10	57	190	3236	4815	0.768	0.679
11–20	95	289	4704	5916	0.740	0.635
21–30	148	283	5254	4947	0.742	0.599
31–40	48	301	2939	4960	0.730	0.574
41–50	64	198	2299	3517	0.720	0.541
51–60	27	122	1463	3059	0.651	0.488
61–70	11	96	1128	2067	0.620	0.392
71–80	15	60	988	2398	0.503	0.285
81–90	3	38	559	1863	0.410	0.205
91–100	0	12	63	467	0.333	0.169
101–110	0	0	2	22	0.500	0.182