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CANCER.
The deaths from the various forms of malignant disease included under this loose
heading decreased from 185 in 1908 to 156 last year, the smallest total recorded since 1904.
The mortality last year was 1.03 per 1,000 persons, as compared with 1.20 in the previous
year and 1.11 in the years 1904-8. Last year's total included 60 deaths of males (mortality
0.92, mean, 0.98) and 96 of females (mortality, 1.10, mean, 1.20). The crude rates (Table 10)
recorded last year in Kensington (1.11), Westminster (1.13), and Marylebone (1.23) were
above the local rate; but if the corrected rates be considered (Table 19), that of Hampstead
(0.85) was the only one below the local (0.91). The corrected rates recorded last year were
above the mean rates, except in Paddington and Willesden.
The crude rates of mortality in the Wards ranged from a minimum of 0.64 in Hyde Park
to a maximum of 1.27 in Maida Vale. (Sec below.) The maximum corrected rate (Table 19)
was recorded in Harrow Road (1.10), and the minimum in Hyde Park (0.85). Last year's
corrected rates were in excess of the means in four of the eight Wards.

Table 24 gives the distribution of deaths according to the locality of the disease,
description of same, and ages of the deceased, distinguishing the sexes.
MEASLES.
According to previous experience 1909 should have been an epidemic year for this
disease, but fewer cases were recorded during the past than in the previous year, the figures
(corrected totals) being 709 during 1909 and 779 in 1908. From the appended statement it
will be seen that more than half of the cases reported during the past year were in the second
quarter.
Quarters 1. 2. 3. 4.
Year
Uncorrected.
Corrected.
1904 ... 723 94 18 23 858 896
1905 ... 227 895 292 288 1,702 1,714
1906 ... 105 204 199 89 597 592
1907 ... 109 303 276 548 1,236 1,284
1908 ... 413 301 32 74 820 779
1909 ... 133 366 76 27 702 709