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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
Stoke Newington 1926
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stoke Newington, The Metropolitan Borough]
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The death-rates from Cancer in England and Wales during
recent years have been as follows:
England and Wales.
Rate per thousand
Year. of population.
1913 1.064
1914 1.069
1915 1.121
1916 1.166
1917 1.210
1918 1.218
1919 1.145
1920 1.161
1921 1.215
1922 1.229
1923 1.267
1924 1.297
1925 1.330
Cancer is most prevalent among those of 40 years of age
and upwards.
In the population of Stoke Newington those in the late age
periods of life are more numerous than in most large communities,
and this circumstance tends to favour a high Cancer rate. If allowance
is made for this fact the mortality from this disease within the
Borough lias been closely similar to that of England and Wales as a
whole.