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The death-rate in Stoke Newington for 1925 is 1278.
Cancer nowadays contributes one to every 12 deaths registered.
It is now more fatal than that other great scourge, Pulmonary
Tuberculosis or Phthisis. Cancer is most prevalent among
those of 40 years of age and upwards.
The very considerable chance of cure by treatment in
the early stage of Cancer has been proved conclusively within
recent years, and yet the majority of cases continue to be
seen only at a late stage. When the causes underlying this lamentable
fact are considered there can be no doubt that the most important
is ignorance on the part of the Public of the signs of early
Cancer, as also of its curability at the early stage. Few women
know that a lump in the breast is dangerous, and that it implies
Cancer in the great majority of cases; few women know the danger
that may underlie an irregular bleeding at or past middle life;
few men know the dangers of a non-healing sore of the lip or tongue,
etc. ; few people know that Cancer in its beginnings and during its
curable stage is rarely a painful ailment. The only way to reach the
thousands of cases of early Cancer is by public education upon this
vitally important subject.
If the disease is of microbic causation, as there are now good
grounds for believing, our knowledge concerning Cancer is likely
to be extended in the near future.