[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council] page 8

London County Council 1959

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]

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Cancer—The cancer death-rate for all ages was 2.40 per 1,000 in 1959—a slight decrease
over the previous year. Cancer is, however, largely a disease of the later half of life and
in order to eliminate variations caused by a changing age/sex composition of the
population, rates for specific age/sex groups are shown below:

Table: Table (v)—Cancer mortality rates per 1,000 living, 1950-59

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Table (v)—Cancer mortality rates per 1,000 living, 1950-59

Age and Sex	1950	1951	1952	1953	1954	1955	1956	1957	1958	1959
Males:
0-24	0.10	0.09	0.12	0.14	0.12	0.11	0.14	0.11	0.09	0.10
25-44	0.43	0.45	0.45	0.46	0.41	0.40	0.43	0.37	0.42	0.40
45-64	4.45	4.28	4.19	4.28	4.31	4.50	4.51	4.55	4.52	4.46
65+	13.23	15.64	15.50	15.69	15.29	15.73	15.77	15.29	16.01	15.20
All Males	2.49	2.60	2.61	2.68	2.64	2.73	2.76	2.77	2.85	2.76
Females:
0-24	0.06	0.08	0.07	0.07	0.06	0.07	0.09	0.07	0.10	0.07
25-44	0.47	0.46	0.47	0.51	0.43	0.45	0.50	0.47	0.52	0.51
45-64	2.84	2.80	2.85	2.85	2.85	2.93	2.77	2.97	2.71	2.63
65+	8.95	8.79	8.77	8.73	8.39	8.43	8.75	8.34	8.50	8.18
All Females	1.95	1.99	2.02	2.04	2.02	2.08	2.12	2.16	2.15	2.09
All Persons	2.20	2.27	2.30	2.34	2.31	2.39	2.42	2.44	2.47	2.40

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Lung Cancer—As was demonstrated in my report last year, the lung has become the
principal site for cancer in males and the table below shows, for three age groups, the steep
rise that has occurred in the last decade together with, for comparison, the corresponding
figures for females.

Table: Table (vi)—Deaths and death rates from cancer of the lung by age and sex, 1950-59 (rates per 1,000 population)

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Table (vi)—Deaths and death rates from cancer of the lung by age and sex, 1950-59 (rates per 1,000 population)

Year	Age
	25-44		45-64		65+
	No.	Rate	No.	Rate	No.	Rate
Males:
1950	71	0.13	693	1.97	474	2.98
1951	63	0.12	696	1.90	523	3.68
1952	73	0.14	673	1.81	580	4.03
1953	81	0.15	734	1.96	614	4.26
1954	64	0.12	773	2.06	625	4.34
1955	62	0.12	810	2.14	651	4.55
1956	65	0.13	853	2.25	718	5.06
1957	37	0.08	891	2.31	723	4.95
1958	52	0.11	883	2.29	786	5.46
1959	61	0.13	907	2.34	788	5.51
Females:
1950	20	0.04	86	0.19	114	0.53
1951	17	0.03	91	0.20	144	0.63
1952	19	0.03	127	0.28	137	0.59
1953	18	0.03	119	0.26	139	0.59
1954	19	0.04	137	0.30	164	0.68
1955	13	0.02	151	0.33	174	0.71
1956	13	0.03	109	0.24	154	0.63
1957	19	0.04	142	0.31	176	0.70
1958	22	0.05	124	0.27	183	0.72
1959	22	0.05	134	0.29	157	0.62

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Table: Table (v)—Cancer mortality rates per 1,000 living, 1950-59

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Table: Table (vi)—Deaths and death rates from cancer of the lung by age and sex, 1950-59 (rates per 1,000 population)