CANCER MORTALITY.
AUSTRALIAN STATISTICS. BY CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT. Received 1.40 p.m. to-day. MELBOURNE, Dec. 15. According to an official report, mortalitv duo to cancer an Victoria during the period 1867-70 was 223 per million of population; by 1800 it had risen to 1013; in 1923 it dropped to 976, but the drop was not regarded 'as sufficient to induce the belief that the rate was on the down grade. The report says: The cancer mortality rates are not so bad as they appeared. The increase was due to the fact that the people lived much longer than formerly. In 1890 the average duration of the life of a man was 47.11 years; in 1926, the average was 59.15 years, and the average in cancer cases 62.7 years.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 15 December 1926, Page 11
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128CANCER MORTALITY. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 15 December 1926, Page 11
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