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“On the Alleged Increase of Cancer”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2016

George King  and
Arthur Newsholme
Arthur Newsholme
Affiliation:
Health of Brighton
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Extract

During the last few years the minds of medical men and of the general public have been exercised over the rapid and striking increase in the mortality from cancer, as shown by the statistics contained in the Registrar-General's Annual Reports. The following table, taken from these reports, shows how great this increase in registered mortality has been. The registered death-rate of males from this disease was 2·7 times, for females 2·0 times, and for both sexes together 2·2 times, as high in 1891 as in the average for the decade 1851-60.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Institute of Actuaries , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , July 1901 , pp. 120 - 150
Copyright
Copyright © Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 1901

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page 125 note * Owing to the steady fall in the birth-rate between 1881 and 1891, the average age of the population is probably somewhat higher at the latter date. This would tend to slightly exaggerate the apparent increase in the death-rate from cancer.

page 133 note * “Statistiche Mittheilungen über den Civilstand der Stadt Frankfurt-am-Main (1860–1889),”

page 135 note * The population of Frankfort Increased from an average of 53,550 in the years 1860–66 to an average of 92,500 in the years 1881–1887; i.e., it nearly doubled. Therefore the rate of mortality from cancer of the rectum really diminished.