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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

Bethnal Green 1930

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green Borough]

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34
CANCER.

Table: Cancer was responsible for 150 deaths or 12 per cent. of the total deaths in the Borough. The local distribution of the disease in these deaths was as follows:—

Cancer was responsible for 150 deaths or 12 per cent. of the total deaths in the Borough. The local distribution of the disease in these deaths was as follows:—

M.F.Total.
Mouth, etc.12—12
(Esophagus and pharynx (6-2), stomach (16-16), liver (2-5), gall bladder (0-1), pylorus (1-1)252550
Peritoneum (1-1), Colon (7-11), rectum (5-6)131831
Uterus, etc.—1111
Breast—1111
Larynx, Lungs7411
Prostate4—4
Bladder, kidneys325
Other8614

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What is true of most diseases is specially true of
Cancer: it is most important to secure early treatment.
Any woman with a suspicious swelling in the region
of the breast, even if painless, should seek medical
advice at once and the same applies to suspicious
growths of any kind in either sex.
DEATHS FROM MOTOR TRAFFIC.
I think attention should be drawn to a particular
type of mortality which could and should be prevented
—deaths of persons through traffic accidents in the
street. During the past four years 72 residents have