Cancer in New Zealand.
In Mill ranter was rrsponsihli' fur 571 deallis in New Zealand, giving a rale of molality per 10,000 living of ti.75. Commenting on these figures in his annual report, the thief health ollicer ohserves :—Of any single ocean affected, the stomach is the tint! most liable to be the scat oM-aiircv among males, although with I Ills sex the disease was, for the year IHO-I, apparently to about the same extent located in the mouth, lips, tongue, ami throat, taking these parts all together. Next to the stomach, the liver is with males the part most Often attacked. Females do col conli'aet canter in the mouth (judgiiin by the returns of deaths), tongue, lips, and throat to nearly the same extent as prevails among males. Whatever may he the cause, the figures arc remarkable, being only nix out of every IDO deaths from cancer among females, against 29 out of every 100 of males dying from the same cause ; ur, expressed in ntimhers. (il ilea I lis of females occurred agatiisl 3S!) of males from cancer in the mouth, etc., in five years' experience of niort.ditv.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7946, 9 October 1905, Page 2
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190Cancer in New Zealand. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7946, 9 October 1905, Page 2
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