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(d) The number of cases remaining on the register at
the end of the quarter.
Separate figures shall be given in each case for males and
females, and for pulmonary and non-pulmonary cases.
3. In these Regulations, the expression " quarter " means
each period of three months ending on the 31st day of
March, the 30th day of June, the 30th day of September, or
the 31st day of December, as the case may be.
Given under the Official Seal of the Minister of Health
this Eighteenth day of December, in the year One
thousand nine hundred and twenty-four.
CANCER.
During the year the Ministry of Health issued three circulars
known as Cancer II, Cancer III and Cancer IV, for
the guidance of Local Authorities supplementing the information
contained in the circular known as Cancer I and
issued in August, 1923.
Cancer II relates to the effects of radium and X rays upon
normal and cancerous tissues.
Cancer III relates to Cancer of the breast and the results
of surgical operation in connection therewith.
Cancer IV is a review on the main lines which experimental
Cancer research has followed in recent years and of
(he broad conclusions, negative as well as positive, which
seem to be deducible up to now from the several branches of
this work.
I do not consider it advisable to set out the whole of the
circulars.
Cancer is not an incurable disease providing it is attended
to in its earlier stages. Doctors are very often, in fact, in
most cases, terribly handicapped by the reluctance of patients
to seek early advice. Often the consultation of a doctor is
delayed until the disease is too far advanced for treatment.
It is therefore imperative that a doctor be consulted,
should any deviation from the normal health occur.
Cancer caused 222 deaths. Carcinoma was the form of
Cancer to which 198 deaths were attributed; sarcoma and
epithelioma were assigned cause of 9 deaths; 15 deaths were
certified as diue to cancer or malignant disease without further
definition.