London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Finsbury 1909
Report on the public health of Finsbury 1909 including annual report on factories and workshops
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The apparent increase of cancer has been explained in another
way—it is stated that owing to the more refined and elaborate
methods now available cases of cancer are more easily recognised
and correctly diagnosed. Cases of cancer are now, it is asserted,
not missed as presumably they may have been in former years.
Probably both these factors are concerned in the explanation of
the apparent increase of the disease.
The parts affected are set out below:—
| Cancer and Malignant Disease of various parts of the body. | 1901 | 1902 | 1903 | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 | 1909 | Totals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Face, Tongue and Jaw | — | 7 | 12 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 62 |
| Throat, Neck and Gullet | — | 8 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 13 | 7 | 9 | 72 |
| Stomach | 9 | 12 | 16 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 13 | 10 | 92 |
| Intestines | 10 | 17 | 11 | 14 | 10 | 20 | 12 | 29 | 18 | 141 |
| Liver | 10 | 6 | 13 | 11 | 3 | 13 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 90 |
| Pancreas | — | — | 3 | 3 | 1 | — | 2 | 3 | 4 | 16 |
| Breast | 6 | 9 | 12 | 4 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 58 |
| Womb | 16 | 12 | 9 | 14 | 11 | 9 | 13 | 10 | 14 | 108 |
| Various | 21 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 14 | 3 | 14 | 86 |
| Totals | 72 | 72 | 92 | 79 | 65 | 84 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 725 |
In man the sites of the disease are chiefly those parts concerned
with digestion, the mouth, stomach, liver and intestines, in
woman the parts concerned with reproduction, the womb and
breast.
RESPIRATORY DISEASES.
The deaths due to this group were as follows:—
Pneumonia 203, Bronchitis 222, Pleurisy 7, Other Respiratory
Diseases 9. making 441 in all.
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