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Table showing for each of the Ten Years 1895 to 1904 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 (1900 to 1904) 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, although with this sex the disease was for the year 1904 apparently to about the same extent located in the mouth, lips, tongue, and throat, taking these parts all together. Next to the stomach, the liver is with males the part which is most often attacked, to judge by mortality records, and next in order come the intestines and rectum. Afterwards, but at a considerable distance, follow the kidneys, bladder, and urethra. Amongst 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 oije most affected, the liver coming next, then the breast, and then the intestines and rectum. 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 6 out of every 100 deaths from cancer, among females, against 29 out of every 100 of males dying from the same cause; or, expressed in numbers, 61 deaths of females occurred against 389 of males from cancer in the mouth, &c, in a five years' experience of mortality.

Deaths from Cancer, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, and 1904. Table showing the Number of Deaths of Males and Females from Cancer during the Years 1900 to 1901, classified according to the Part of the Body affected.

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Year. Estimated Mean Population. Deaths from Cancer. Total Deaths from Deaths, all Cancer per 10,000 Causes. of Living Persons. Percentage of Total Deaths due to Cancer. 895 ... 896 .. .897 ... .898 ... .899 ... .900 ... .901 ... .902 ... .903 ... 904 ... 692,417 706,846 721,609 736,260 749,984 763,594 777,968 797,793 820,217 845,022 383 389 395 471 468 430 515 536 582 571 6,863 6,432 6,595 7,244 7,680 7,200 7,634 8,375 8,528 8,087 5'53 5-50 5-47 640 6-24 5-63 6-62 6-72 7-10 6-76 5'58 605 5-99 6-50 6-09 5-97 6-75 6-40 6-82 7-06

1900. .901. 1902. 1903. 1904. Part affected. IS! <D 8| •la u 5 I O T3 o> "S I 53 o •a*, s«a 1(5 |°i 8 *3 "S a Male, Per Cent. 31-78 Per Cent. 22-69 Per Cent. 24-14 Per Gent. 33 56 Per Cent. 32-46 Mouth, lip, tongue, throat, neck, &c. Stomach Intestines, rectum ... Liver Kidneys, bladder, urethra, &c. Leg, foot, &c. Lung 68 60 63 99 99 80 20 25 9 4 2 37.38 12-15 11-68 4-21 1-87 0-93 97 32 37 13 39-92 1317 15-23 5-35 112 32 38 12 42-91 12-26 14-56 4-60 96 85 as 17 4 9 32-54 11-87 11-87 5-76 1-35 3-05 107 34 42 13 7 3 3508 1115 13-77 4-26 2-30 0-98 4 1-64 "4 1-68 Not specified 214 32 10000 243 22 10000 261 35 100-00 295 30 10000 305 ! 18 10000 Totals 246 265 296 325 323