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four resulted from some form of cancer. The following table shows
the various sites affected: —

* Per 1,000 population
† Cancer of the Cervix—9 (rate 0.04)
Lung Cancer—The continuing rise in total cancer deaths throughout
the country is due, almost entirely, to an increase in cancer
of the lung, deaths from which have been advancing at a rate of
almost 1,000 per year since 1960; indeed the present total of 30,746
for England and Wales with a calculated rate of 0.63 indicates an
average yearly increase of 3.5% over the last decade. Following
the national trend, Greater London returned a rate of 0.78 but,
contrariwise, the local rate of 0.74 which shows a fall of 0.02
from that for 1970, equals the Borough average for the previous
6 years.
Although death rates in the country for women who die from
lung cancer continue to increase, there are still five times as many
men as women who die from this cause. In Greenwich this pattern
is repeated, the rates for males and females dying from this
cause during 1970 were 1.25 and 0.25 respectively.
The accompanying table giving deaths from lung cancer in the