CANCER HOUSES
STREETS THAT SUFFER FROM THE SCOURGE. Dr Ward O’Brien Ward, superintendent of vital statistics for the city of Montreal, states that while cancer has been declared by many authorities to be neither hereditary nor contagious, he has seen remarkable examples of both. “In this city.” ho states “there are some streets not remarkable for length nor overcrowding where cancer deaths are extremely frequent, on an average of from seven to eight in a year, while other streets much more populous have had. only two or thrse deaths from thia disease in several years. “A *>Toat nmnv houses have also had two Ol° three deaths from the scourge in a few* years, and. among persons ,p o t in any way related to one another.
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Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 122, 8 February 1923, Page 3
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126CANCER HOUSES Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 122, 8 February 1923, Page 3
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