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

  • Q133635875
Date:
1914
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: The cancer problem : a statistical study / by C.E. Green. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ~o It is a curious fact, too, that in many countries while the white population suffer severely, the aborigines, who live differently and do not warm themselves by artificial heat, are immune. A striking case is that of the American negro. Chisholm’s statistics show that before the emancipa- tion the whites were more than twice as liable as the blacks. The planters gave their slaves wide, airy rooms, plenty of simple food, and much out- door labour. Since the nesress has lived in her © own house her death-rate from uterine cancer has become 20, as against 157 for her white sister. In the same way the North American Indians were exempt from cancer in their primitive savage con- dition, but with modern civilization their compara- tive immunity has now passed away. Even some of the apparent exceptions to the statement that the disease seems to increase in frequency with remoteness from the Equator seem to bear out the accuracy of my suggestion. It has been pointed out, for example, on more occasions than one that the disease is rare in Iceland. Dr. Jefferson, who visited these islands m 1892, informed Dr. .Itoger Wllliams that the disease w as then very rare. During some months residence he never saw a case. In 1890 there were only two