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[1906

CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES.
In this group of diseases are included Cancer, Tubercular Diseases,
Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism, Rickets, Diabetes, Gout, and a few other
diseases (vide Table LXVIII). It is proposed to refer briefly to some of them.
Cancer or Malignant Disease.—It is an unpleasant fact to have to
chronicle that under this heading there were registered no less than 363 deaths,
which are equal to 10.52 per 10,000 of the population. That is to say that
just over 1 in every 1,000 of the population died during the year. Inasmuch
as only 9 of these deaths occurred in persons under 25 years of age, it is at
once apparent that the deaths assume a high proportion among those who are
over that age. Thus between 25 and 35 among every 10,000 persons, there were
1.11 deaths, which increased to 779 in the next age period, 35-45; and to
28.06 in that following, 45-55; until between 55 and 65 over 52.85 persons out
of over 10,000 died; between 65-75, 69.98; and above 75 years of age 93.46.
These are very serious figures, and therefore, no surprise can be expressed at
the anxiety of scientists to discover the true cause of these diseases.