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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
On reference to Table 40 it will be seen that the number of
deaths from Cancer of the Stomach, Abdomen, and Liver, amounts
to 76, 37 of males and 39 of females, out of a total of 222. If
Cancer of Rectum, Bowel, and Bladder be included then the total
number of deaths from Cancer of the abdominal organs was 122,
60 of males and 62 of females.
It is to be hoped that before long the researches presently
made into the etiology of the disease will prove successful, and that
preventive medicine may be able to do something to lessen the
increasing mortality from this cause.
Tubercular Diseases.
The number of deaths from the above was 314, compared
with 388 in 1901, and 374 in 1900.
215 of the deaths occurred from Phthisis pulmonalis, 36 from
tubercular disease of the brain, and 63 from other forms of tubercular
disease.
The number of deaths from Phthisis and other Tubercular
Diseases, and the rates per 1,000 for the whole Borough and for
the separate parishes are shown in the next Table.