CANCER OF LUNGS.
CAUSED BY MOTORINC SIR ARBUTHNOT LANE’S OPINION (Aust. and N.Z. Gable Association.) (Received Feb. 13, 11 p.m.} LONDON, Feb. 13. Sir Arbuthnot Lane expresses the opinion that motoring is the cause of a new form of cancer of the lungs, from while 10 per cent, of the cancer victims die. He bases his statement on figures supplied from Vienna showing an inorease in cancer of the lungs since 1895. Sir Arbuthnot says: “It is obvious the condition is coincident with the motor car and the use of tar on the roads. I am convinced cancer is a disease of civilisation as shown by its comparative absence in India wherever the natives adopt a natural form of living, though where the Indians adopt thei habits of the white men the incidence of cancer is equal to that of Europe,
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10510, 14 February 1928, Page 5
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