Cancer research in Australia / [G. Cooke Adams].

  • Adams, G. Cooke.
Date:
[between 1900 and 1909?]
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Credit: Cancer research in Australia / [G. Cooke Adams]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of the total inhabitants, their death-rate would show 28*0 per 100,000 living British born. In 1861 the Australian born propor¬ tion of the population was about 45 per cent, and the British born 46 per cent, of the total inhabitants. The Australian born death- rate at this period appears to be 5 • 6 per 100,000 living Australian born, while the British born was 30 *5 per 100,000 living British Table Showing the Comparative Increase in the Death-rate from Cancer among the Australian and British born Proportion of the Population and the Increase in the Cancer Death-rate of the Total Population from 1856 to 1901 (exclusive of the Aboidgines.) Year. j Population. Proportion of death-rates from cancer per 100,000 living. Australian horn. British born. Born of all nationalities. 1851. 403,889 — 28’0* 14 0 1861. 1,153,978 5-6 30-5 19-0 1871. 1,668,377 9-7 56-7 25-0 1881. 2,252,617 16-8 72*9 32-6 1891. 3,183,237 19-8 119-8 45*9 1901. 3,771,715 22-6 203-1 57-3 * Calculated for the year 1856. born. In 1901 the Australian born proportion of the population had increased to 77 per cent, of the total inhabitants and the British born had diminished to 16 per cent. But it is inter¬ esting to note that during this period of 40 years, while the Australian born proportion of the population had increased by about 3,000,000, their cancer death-rate had only increased to 22*6 per 100,000 living Australian born, whereas the British born proportion of the total inhabitants had only increased by about 354,000, yet their cancer death-rate had increased to 203*1 per 100,000 living British born. In other words, between the years 1861 and 1901 the Australian born death-rate had increased by only 17 per 100,000 living Australian born as against 172 per 100,000 living British born. Death-rate for Age Period. As the above Table shows only the crude cancer death-rate, before coming to any conclusions one must study the corrected cancer death-rates for the age period, 35 years and upwards, of the Australian, British, and foreign born inhabitants, not only in respect of the total population but also as they affect proportion¬ ately the individual nationalities themselves. These calculations I have made, and they are shown in the Table below, from which it will be observed that the crude cancer death-rate for the