The cancer problem : a statistical study / by C.E. Green.

  • Charles Edward Green
Date:
1912
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    yond proving repeatedly that certain parts of the body are particularly liable to malignant disease these were practically barren of results. The stat- istics of the Registrar-General, however, seemed to me to be in a different category, as they clearly prove (1) that cancer is much more prevalent in some districts than in others ; (2) that it is common in some trades and uncommon in others; and (3) that these figures are fairly constant. These three facts are surely of great signifi- cance. Why should the cancer death-rate be greatly higher in the case of chimney-sweeps than in the case of grocers ? Why should coal-heavers be more liable to malignant disease than coal-miners, lawyers than physicians, sailors than fishermen, furriers than tanners, lead-workers than copper workers ? The local distribution of cancer is equally surprising. l-J&WG* Scotland we gef some very striking results. To take the two extremes, in Nairn, a beautiful ^ rural county whose people are mainly employed in pastoral pursuits, we find a cancer mortality of 973 per cent., while the City of Glasgow has only 2'98 per cent. Viewed broadly, these curious facts raise at once
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