INCREASE OF CANCER.
The President of the Manchester Medical Society, Mr Walter Whitehead, in bis opening address, delivered on the 4th February, gave some alarm ing statistics with regard to the rapid increase in the prevalence of cancer in Great Britain. He said that in 1882 (the last year for which tha RegistrarGeneral has issued a report) the number of deaths from cancer was 14,057, against 4897 in 1849. The proportion which the deaths from cancer bear to the total number of deaths show the following steady and rapid progression : —In 1849 it was 1 in 90, in 1851 it was 1 in 73, in 1870 it was 1 in 52, in 1880 it was 1 in 40, and in 1882 it was lin 36. Startling as these figures are, Mr Whitehead considers that they do not adequately represent the extent of the increase, as the earlier returns included under the head of cancer other growths such as fibroids, polypi, lupus, &c, which are now distinguished from ifc j while the chimney-sweeper's cancer, which added largely to the earlier statistics, has now practically disappeared, [n 1882 twico as many females died from cancer as males. The proportionate increase in the number of deaths from 1849 to 1882 has been considerably greater among men than among women.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1166, 29 July 1885, Page 4
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216INCREASE OF CANCER. Tuapeka Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1166, 29 July 1885, Page 4
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