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Inn Road, W.C.i; and the Hospital for Sick Children, Great
Ormond Street, W.C.i.
Special notices, drawing attention to the facilities for treatment
in the neighbourhood at hospitals and treatment centres, are exhibited
in the public conveniences, and all the staff of the Department can
give information on this point.
Cancer.
The number of deaths from cancer has been gradually
increasing in recent years, although lower in 1938. This is probably
a real increase, and not to be explained by the increased age of the
population (although this is no doubt an important factor), nor by
improved methods of diagnosis.
In view of the marked tendency to a greater average age of the
population arising from a lessening birth rate and lowered death rate,
it appears inevitable that the vital statistics of the whole country
will show, as time goes on, a gradual increase in the proportion of
deaths due to this disease.
The number of deaths from cancer in 1938 yielded a rate of
1.98 per 1,000 of the population.

Insulin Treatment of Diabetes.
Arrangements have been in force since July, 1931, under
Section 77 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, for the provision
of insulin for the treatment of poor persons suffering from
diabetes.