DEATHS FROM CANCER.
MORTALITY AMONG WOMEN. VALUE OF EXAMINATION. [BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH. Thursday. Reporting to. the Hospital Board on cancer, Dr. P. C. Fenwick said the Governmant Statistician bad supplied him with, figures, " and," ho added, "consideration of these will explain.my anxiety that those who feel out of health should not postpone examination and should never regard as trivial symptoms which may b$ the- earliest warnings of 'a dangerous disease." ■ In 1.925 the number of women whodie3 between the ages of 40 and 60 year's from" all causes was 1032. Of this number 267 died from some form of cancer, that is, one out of four deaths -was due to malig-* nant disease.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19417, 27 August 1926, Page 12
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