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[1911
but if the matter be considered dispassionately it must be admitted that
nothing has occurred during recent years to assist the medical profession in
their diagnosis. Therefore, the cause must be sought in some other direction.
What that is, it is impossible to say.
In Islington, if we compare the deaths that occurred at the several age
periods of life, we will find that while there was a decrease of 2 in the number
of deaths at all ages up to and including forty-four, there was on the other
hand an increase of 39 at the ages above that time of life.
The largest number of deaths attributed to any special organ was 37
referred to cancer of the stomach, of which 19 were of males and 18 of females,
so that there was an almost equal division of the mortality. On the other hand,
whereas 12 males died from cancer of the tongue, no female died; and again
while 21 males succumbed to cancer of the sesophagus, only 1 female did.
But on the other hand out of 30 deaths from disease of the liver only 11 were
those of males, as against 19 females. Again among women there were 32
deaths from cancer of the breast, 42 from cancer of the uterus, 6 from cancer
of the ovaries.

This synopsis brings out this fact very clearly that were it not for the
deaths from cancer of the female organs of generation, the deaths among males
would have exceeded those among women, the respective numbers then being
143 and 101. It is a noticeable fact that 85 per cent, of the mortality among
women occurred after the child-bearing age had been safely passed.