This represents a 50% leap in the number of patients who have waited longer than the target times.
And people who work in community organizations say they have seen a leap in the number of New Yorkers saddled with unmanageable housing costs.
It was not half so black as the month of June, which saw a huge leap in the number of people slaughtered on French roads.
The latest English Housing Survey has highlighted a number of trends in housing, including the leap in the number of families renting privately, the rise of people in work claiming housing benefit, and many people's thwarted dreams of home ownership.
Health researchers have claimed that those who experiment with legal highs are "dancing in a minefield" as they highlight a leap in the number of recent deaths in Britain connected with the synthetic drugs.
The overall increase was driven by a 40% leap in the number of high earners in the UK, to 2,926 from 2,086, which partly reflected exchange rate effects as most City bankers are paid in sterling.
Given the fivefold rise in adult ownership of tablets in the US since 2011, it seems reasonable to expect a similarly large leap in the number of children owning and using tablets by 2015.
Separately, an Israeli human rights group said Wednesday that government statistics it had obtained showed a leap in the number of Palestinians who had their Jerusalem residency status revoked by the Israeli Interior Ministry in 2008.
On the one hand, the raid on Abbottabad has delivered an immediate boost in the polls, including, according to the Pew Research Centre, a 17-point leap in the number of Americans who approve of his handling of the war.
The advent of the unlimited MetroCard in 1998 also prompted a big leap in the number of weekend rides, by making it far easier financially and logistically for New Yorkers to take leisure-time trips.
