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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The chart shows that this rate has increased from 47 per
100,000 in 1885 to 90 in 1902, the mean rate for the 18 years
being 66.5. With the exception of the year 1900, the rate has
been above this mean since the year 1895.
In the Table which shows the rates also in the separate
parishes there is considerable variation in the rate as well as in
the mean rate for the 18 years recorded.
The means in the parishes for the 18 years were, in Clapham
79, Putney 61, Streatham 63, Tooting 68, and in Wandsworth 66.
The rate thus shows that in the parish of Clapham Cancer has
been more prevalent than in any other parish.
It would be interesting, from a statistical point of view, to
know whether this increase has taken place both among males and
females, but the necessary corrected statistics could not easily be
obtained.