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Breast Examinations
No. examined 1,306
No. requiring further examination 12
With regard to carcinoma of the cervix uteri, there were 6 deaths
recorded in the Borough during 1968 which gives a rate of 0.03
per 1,000 population. This is similar to the rate for 1967 and
it again compares favourably with that for England and Wales,
viz. 0.05.
Breast examinations rose over six-fold from 197 in 1967 to a
total of 1,306 for the current year. Those cases requiring further
examination increased correspondingly from 2 to 12.
Family Planning
When countries have been confronted with declining populations
they have considered the matter of such serious moment that
national policies have been introduced to encourage procreation.
It is noticeable that the same alacrity has been absent when the
converse becomes true.
Since the industrial revolution, human and animal muscle
power has, progressively and at an ever increasing rate, been
replaced by machines. Old relationships between population and
group security have changed. Indeed, in a highly sophisticated
nation, an increasing population can be considered economically
undesirable and in newly developing countries any surplus gained
is immediately swallowed up by the ever-hungry mouths and wants
of the new-born. Economic advancement in such circumstances
must be counted as an illusion.
In civilised nations, increased numbers do not constitute the
whole of the problem for the greater the affluence of a society the
more claims are made on living space. For instance, the bright
prospects of early Utopia promised by an extension of private
car-ownership have faded. On the contrary, it is helping to destroy
the very freedom it once presaged. More cars mean more roads.