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Table showing for each of the Ten Years 1898 to 1907 the Number of Persons registered as having died from Cancer, the Proportion of Deaths from Cancer per 10,000 living, and the Percentage of all Deaths attributed to Cancer.

To exhibit how cancer affects the different parts of the human body in respect of each sex, the experience of five years (1903 to 1907) is shown in a succeeding table. Of any single organ affected, the stomach is the one most liable to be the seat of cancer among males, while the mouth, lips, tongue, and throat, taking all these organs together, show a large number. Next to the stomach, the liver is with males the organ which is the most often attacked, to judge by mortality records, and next in order come the intestines and rectum. Afterwards follow the kidneys, bladder, and urethra. Among the females, the organs of generation —ovaries, uterus, and vagina—as a group, show most cases of mortality from cancer; but, as with the males, the stomach is, of any single organ, the one most affected, the breast, liver, intestines, and rectum following. Females do not contract cancer in the mouth (judging by the returns of deaths), tongue, lips, and throat to nearly the same extent as prevails among males. Whatever may be the cause, the figures are remarkable, being only 72 out of every 100 deaths from located cancer among females, against 303 out of every 100 of males dying from the same cause, or, expressed in numbers, 89 deaths of females Ofcculrred against 463 of males from cancer in the mouth, &c, in a five years' experience of mortality.

Deaths from Cancer, 1903 to 1997. — Table showing the Number of Deaths of Males and Females from, Cancer during the Years 1903 to 1907, classified, according to the Part of the Body affected.

Year. Estimated Mean Population. Deaths from Cancer. Total Deaths from Deaths, all Canoer per 10,000 Causes. of Living Persons. Percentage of Total Deaths due to Cancer. 1898 ... 1899 ... 1900 ... 1901 ... 1902 ... 1903 ... 1904 ... 1905 ... 1906 ... 1907 .. 736,260 749,984 763,594 777,968 797,793 820,217 845,022 870,000 895,594 919,105 471 468 430 515 536 582 571 566 623 674 7,244 7,680 7,200 7,634 8,375 8,528 8,087 8,061 8,339 10,066 640 6-24 5-63 6-62 6-72 7-10 6-76 6-51 6-96 7-33 6-50 6-09 5-97 6-75 6'40 6-82 7-06 7-02 7-47 6'70

.903. .904. .905. 1906. .907. Part affected. a o -a 2 & II a O <T3 "£«-. * |°I S i* 2 5 2 ffl CO CD -» IP a O T3 MaL a. Mouth, lip, tongue, throat, neck, &c. Stomach Intestines, rectum. ... Liver ... .•.. Kidneys, bladder, urethra, &c. Leg, foot, &c. Lung 99 Per Cent. 33-56 99 Per Cent. 3246 79 Per Cent. 26-69 94 Per Cent. 31-02 92 Per Cent. 28-05 96 35 35 17 4 9 32-54 11-87 11-87 5-76 1-35 305 107 34 42 13 7 3 35-08 11-15 13-77 4-26 2-30 0-98 107 29 49 25 4 3 36-15 9-80 16-55 8-45 1-35 1-01 104 35 44 18 5 3 34-33 11-55 14-52 5-94 1-65 0-99 98 49 58 17 11 3 29-88 14-94 17-68 5-18 3-35 0-92 Not specified 295 30 100-00 305 18 10000 296 17 10000 303 34 100-00 328 33 10000 Totals 325 323 313 337 361 ema. :es. Moutb, tongue, throat, &e. Breast Stomach Intestines, rectum ... Kidneys, bladder Ovary, uterus, vagina Liver Gall-bladder, spleen, pancreas... Lung, spine, thigh, shoulder ... 21 33 51 28 5 48 38 4 4 Per Cent. 905 14-23 21-98 12-07 216 20-69 16-38 1-72 1-72 12 25 55 32 4 58 35 1 10 Per Cent. 5-17 10-78 23-71 13-79 1-72 25 00 1509 0-43 4-31 19 p>8 51 34 7 49 27 4 6 Per Cent. 8-09 16-17 21-70 14-47 2-98 20-85 11-49 1-70 2-55 21 88 42 32 3 68 42 5 Per Cent. 8-37 15-14 16-73 12-75 1-20 27-09 16-73 1-99 16 48 47 53 4 73 39 6 5 Per Cent. 5-50 16-50 16-15 18-21 1-37 2509 13-40 206 1-72 Not specified 232 25 100-00 232 16 10000 235 18 100-00 251 35 10000 291 22 100-00 Totals 257 248 253 286 313