MENACE OF CANCER
DEATHB BTEADILY MOUNTING » LEGISLATION IN BRITAIN PAGILITIES FOR TREATMENT (United Press Assn.—Elec. TeL Copyright) LONDON, Dec. 12. U Is estimated that there are over 100,000 sufferers to-day from cancer in the United. Kingdom,” said Sir Samuel Hoare when moving the second reading of the Cancer Bill. Cancer came second on the list of fatal diseases. The deaths yearly had been steadily mounting and totalled 74,000 In 1937. Cancer was not merely an old-age disease. It killed off people in the prime of life. The nation could not afford In these days to permit inroads upon the health of its citizens. The Bill’s object was to make facilities for treatment available to aIL The Bill was read a second time without a division. Practically the only criticism was that the Bill does pot go far enough.
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Waikato Times, Volume 123, Issue 20679, 14 December 1938, Page 7
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138MENACE OF CANCER Waikato Times, Volume 123, Issue 20679, 14 December 1938, Page 7
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