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

  • Q133635875
Date:
1914
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Credit: The cancer problem : a statistical study / by C.E. Green. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    coal tar in the chimney. In many rooms with windows and doors closed the only possible source of ventilation is through this filthy, soot-lined funnel. When the situation of a house is such that the wind actually bloivs its products down into the room the circum- stances are infinitely worse, and if soot and coal tar are conducive to cancer it is hardly to be wondered that it occurs more frequently under such local conditions. I have recently undertaken an investigation which seems to me to furnish strong proof of the facts (l) that the lie of the country has a marked effect on the cancer death-rate ; and (2) that cancer is due to some product of combustion of coal. In order to confirm and amplify the results which I had previously obtained, I was anxious to make a minute investing- tion of the cancer incidence of Nairnshire for the folio win S’ three reasons :— O (1) Because, as already stated, it is shown by the Registrar-General to have the highest death- rate from cancer in Scotland in its rural districts, with a normal death-rate in the town. (2) Because it contains within its borders all kinds of country—hilly, sloping, and flat. (3) Because it is almost unique in regard to the