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Table showing for each of the Ten Years 1897 to 1906 the Number of Persons registered as having died from Cancer, the Proportion of Deaths from Cancer per 10,000 living, and the Percentage of all Deaths attributed to Cancer.

To exhibit how cancer affects the different parts of the human body in respect of each sex, the experience of five years (1902 to 1906) is shown in a succeeding table. Of any single organ affected, the stomach is the one most liable to be the seat of cancer among males, while the mouth, lips, tongue, and thioat, taking all these organs together, show a large number. Next to the stomach, the liver is with males the organ which is most often attacked, to judge by mortality records, and next in order comes the intestines and rectum. Afterwards follow the kidneys, bladder, and urethra. Amongst the females, the organs of generation —ovaries, uterus, and vagina—as a group, show most cases of mortality from cancer ; but, as with the males, the stomach is, of any single organ, the one most affected, the breast, liver, intestines, and rectum following. Females do not contract cancer in the mouth (judging by the returns of deaths), tongue, lips, and throat to nearly the same extent as prevails among males. Whatever may be the cause, the figures are remarkable, being only 76 out of every 100 deaths from cancer among females, against 29-6 out of every 100 of males dying from the same cause ; or, expressed in numbers, 89 deaths of females occurred against 434 of males from cancer in the mouth, &c, in a five years' experience of mortality.

Deaths from Cancer, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, and 1906.—Table showing the Number of Deaths of Males and Females from Cancer during the Years 1901 to 1905, classified according to the Part of the Body affected.

Year. Estimated ' Mean Population. Deaths from Cancer. Total Deaths from Deaths, all ' Cancer per 10,000 Causes. , of Living Persons. I . I Percentage of Total Deaths due to Cancer. 897 .. 898 ... .899 ... 900 ... 901 ... 902 ... 903 ... 904 ... 905 ... .906 ... 721,609 736,260 749,984 763,594 777,968 797,793 820,217 845,022 870,000 895,594 395 471 468 430 515 536 582 571 566 623 6,595 7.244 7,680 7,200 7,634 8,375 8,528 8,087 8,061 8,339 5-47 640 6-24 5-63 6-62 672 7-10 6-76 6-51 6-96 5-99 6-50 6-09 5-97 6-75 6-40 6-82 7-06 7-02 7-47

1902. 1903. .904. 1905. 1906. Part affected. Is |1 a •Iα i°i !<3i!°i CO fl is a O T3 t! „. -~c g.°'S 2 S. 11 IS 'ale. Per Per Cent. Cent. 32-46 79 26-69 Per Cent. 94 3102 Per Cent. 24-14 Per Cent. 33-56 Mouth, lip, tongue, throat, neck, &c. Stomach Intestines, rectum ... Liver Kidneys, bladder, urethra, &c. Leg, foot, &c. Lung 63 112 32 38 12 42-91 12-26 14-56 4-60 99 96 35 35 17 4 9 32-54 11-87 11-87 5-76 1-35 305 99 107 34 42 13 7 3 3508 107 3615 11-15 29 9-80 13-77 49 16-55 4-26 25 8-45 2-30 4 1-35 0-98 3 1-Oli 79 107 29 49 25 4 3 94 104 35 44 18 5 3 104 34-33 35 11-55 44 I 14-52 18 j 5-94 5 1-65 3 0-99 4 1-53 Not specified 261 35 10000 295 30 10000 305 ■ 18 10000 296 17 10000 303 34 100-00 Totals 296 325 1323 313 337 ''emaL Sβ. Mouth, tongue, throat, &c. Breast Stomach Intestines, rectum ... Kidneys, bladder Ovary, uterus, vagina Liver Gall-bladder, spleen, pancreas... Lung, spine, thigh, shoulder ... L6 33 43 33 8 4 1 33 3 2 [Per Cent. 7-44 15-35 20-00 15-35 3-72 20-46 15-35 1 40 0-93 21 33 51 28 5 48 38 4 4 Per Cent. 905 14-23 21-98 12-07 216 20-69 16-38 1-72 1-72 12 25 55 82 4 58 35 1 10 Per Cent. 5-17 10-78 23-71 13-79 1-72 2500 1509 0-43 4-31 L9 38 51 84 7 49 27 4 6 PerCent. 8-09 16-17 21-70 14-47 2-98 20-85 11-49 1-70 2-55 21 38 42 32 3 68 42 5 Per Cent. 8-37 15-14 16-73 12-75 1-20 2709 16-73 1-99 Not specified 215 25 10000 232 25 10000 232 16 100-00 235 18 100-00 251 35 10000 Totals 240 257 248 253 286