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Cancer and Race in British Guiana1.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

J. F. C. Haslam
J. F. C. Haslam
Affiliation:
(From the Government Public Health Department, British Guiana.)
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In a Memorandum circulated through the Colonial Office, the Cancer Committee of the Ministry of Health expressed a desire for any available information as to the incidence of cancer upon persons of different races living under similar conditions. While there are a good many parts of the world in which considerable numbers of people of different races live side by side, in few of such places are records available for the purpose of a statistical enquiry.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 25 , Issue 3 , August 1926 , pp. 227 - 236
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1926

References

page 228 note 1 Throughout this paper the word cancer is used as synonymous with “cancer and other malignant tumours” which is the expression used in the reports of the Registrar-General of British Guiana.

page 228 note 2 Throughout this paper the term “Others” indicates the whole population less East Indians.

page 234 note 1 A comparison of Tables IV and VII will show that the scheme of age grouping used by the Registrar-General for deaths is different from that used by the Census Commissioner for the living.