Spread of Cancer in N.Z.
For some years past the growth of cancer among the population of New Zealand has been very noticeable. One of the Wards, No. 3, in the Wellington Hospital, is seldom without two or three patients—sometimes more—who generally last about two months after admittance, and of late the malady has increased to an alarming extent. The returns of the institution for (be past eight years are as lollow:—188G, 015 patients, 7 afflicted with cancer; 1887, 686 patients, 7 cancer ; 1888, 841 patients, 12 cancer; 1889, 982 patients, 20 cancer; 1890, 998 patients, 32 cancer ; 1891, 1043 patients, 38 cancer; 1892, 1082 patients, 41 cancer; 1893, 1201 patients, 51 cancer. Various reasons are ascribed for the spread of the disease, that generally being held that colonials eat too much meat by far, in many cases the cattle being afflicted with»diseases which are the generators of cancer. Be the cause what it may, it is undoubtedly a fact that, in proportion to the population, New Zealanders suffer more from the complaint than the population of any other part of the civilised globe.
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Opunake Times, Volume I, Issue 34, 26 October 1894, Page 4
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184Spread of Cancer in N.Z. Opunake Times, Volume I, Issue 34, 26 October 1894, Page 4
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