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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    CHAPTER IV THE INFLUENCE OF FUEL If, then, the lie of the ground seems to have a mysterious influence on the local incidence of cancer, how can this be explained ? I may say at once that I am convinced it can only be explained in Relation to the Elimination and Removal of Products of Combustion from the Houses or from their Neighbourhood. If soot or some of its ingredients can cause epithelioma in chimney-sweeps and coal tar bring it on in coal tar workers who work with an actual material which induces the disease, is it not reasonable to expect that inhabitants of a district where the products of coal combustion are imperfectly removed should be more subject 'to cancer than dwellers in a district where these are more perfectly removed ? When I first realised that the disease was more prevalent in certain districts than in others, I began to carefully examine the exterior of the individual houses in which I could discover that cases had occurred in my own neighbourhood. I disregarded