The Cancer Scourge
DISTURBING FIGURES “The deaths ascribed to cancer during 1935 numbered 64,507 —30,780 of males and 33,727 of females. For loot 1 i sexes these numbers were the highest, yet recorded. The standardised death-rate for males in 1035 amounted to 1058 a million, and that for females to 050 . lfc is pointed out m the report that the recorded morh'.lity from cancer of some parts of the body lias continued to increase since 102 1-30 at advanced ages, although it lias become stationary or begun to decline in middle age, and il seems necessary to conclude that the average age of appearance of cancer in some of those organs is becoming later. For few organs on the oilier hand, cancer mortality continues to j ncrease at almost every age.” —From the report of the Chief Registrar of Rirlhs and Deaths in Britain for 1935.
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Franklin Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 108, 14 September 1938, Page 2
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146The Cancer Scourge Franklin Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 108, 14 September 1938, Page 2
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