DEATHS FROM CANCER.
FACTOR IN COMPARISONS. PEOPLE LIVING LONGER. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 5.5 p.m.) MELBOURNE, Dec, 15. According to an official report the mortality due to cancer in Victoria during the period from 1861 to 1870 was 223 per 1,000,000 of the population. By 1890 it had risen to 1013. In 1923 it had dropped to 976. but the drop was not regarded as sufficient to induce the belief that the rats was; on the down grade. The report says the cancer mortality rates are not so bad as they appear. The increase was due to the fact that 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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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19512, 16 December 1926, Page 13
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