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CANCER.
298 deaths were registered as being due to this cause, as compared with 319 and 302
in the two preceding years.
This is equal to a death-rate of l.36 per 1,000 of civil population.
The sex distribution of the deaths and death-rates is shown in the following table :—
Sex.
No. of Deaths.
Death-rates per 1,000 males
or females living (based on
estimated civil population 1924).
Males
133
1.29
Females
165
1.43
Both Sexes .
298
1.36
The deaths registered during
the following table :—
the past ten years as being due to Cancer are set out in
Sex.
1914
1915
1916
1917
1918
1919
1920
1921
1922
1923
Average
for 10
years.
1924
Males
127
120
125
135
125
114
150
140
157
159
135
133
Females
140
138
142
146
144
131
149
150
145
160
145
165
Both Sexes
267
258
267
281
269
245
299
290
302
319
280
298
A special enquiry was made during 1924 concerning the deaths which had occurred
from Cancer of the Breast during the previous year.
39 such cases had been registered. No information could be obtained concerning
8 cases, the relatives having left the Borough. Of the remaining 31 cases, 23 were operated
upon, and 8 had no operation. Two of the former died during the operation and are excluded.
This gives 21 operation cases for consideration. 12 of these were operated upon within 1 year
of the growth being noticed. The average duration of life after operation was 2 years and
10 months.
The remaining 9 cases were operated upon more than 1 year after the growth was
first noticed; the average duration of life after operation in these cases was 1 year and 5
months.
Of the 8 cases not operated upon, one lived 10 years, another 8 years, and another 5 years
after the growth was first noticed. These were elderly women, who probably had what is
termed Atrophic Scirrhus, a form in which the disease lasts many years without much
extension. In the remaining 5 cases not operated upon, the average duration of life after
the growth was first noticed was 1 year only.