DEATH RATE DECLINES
No Evidence of National Degeneration in England CANCER FIGURES A RECORD • . .. ’ r ■ .. ■ .■ .' ■ 1 • ’’ - ■ . - ■ . * ■ GENERAL HEALTH GOOD [United Frees Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Received 2.30 p.m. to-day. LONDON, Sept. TB. Sir George Newman’s report on the public health of England and Wales for 1933 points out that there is no evidence of national deterioration. The general death rate has steadily declined for a generation, and the evidence indicates that economic and social difficulties unquestionbly nutrition the English' people better than at any period of which there is a record. The number of deaths recorded due to cancer in 1933 was 61,572, of which number 28,837 were males and 32,735 females, giving a rate of 1526. per million persons living. This is a new high record.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 19 September 1934, Page 8
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