CANCER.
Australian Mortality. MELBOURNE, July 22. Sir N. Howse at the Australian Heatlh Conference said that in re spect to cancer, Australia stands at a higher level of death rate than seventeen other countries. There had been a very real and serious increase in cancer mortality, chiefly in cancer of the digestive tract. The proportion of female cancer deaths to the total deaths is considerably greater than the proportion of male deaths. In the past seventeen years, 70,000 persons in Australia died from cancer alone. During the next ten years, a. further seventy thousand will die from this disease.
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Grey River Argus, 23 July 1926, Page 5
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99CANCER. Grey River Argus, 23 July 1926, Page 5
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