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those serving as soldiers, officers or privates, those following the professions, the
skilled workman and the unskilled, those following no occupation at all, or those
picking up a precarious livelihood on the street, are all equally affected.
Amongst the females, the conditions are the same. The mistress and the maid,
the wife or the widow of the peer, and the wife or widow of the labourer, the woman
who works for her living and the woman of independent means, all are attacked alike.
Any table constructed from the death returns on occupation and cancer would be
merely a list of trades, occupations and professions, and is not worth including.
General Circumstances.—Information under this head, it was thought, might be
obtained by discovering from the death returns where the death occurred in each case.
The results are tabulated in the table given below.
It is probably safe to say that those who died at home or in nursing homes were
rich or well to do, and may so be classed. Those dying in the hospitals or the infirmary
may also be grouped together, since though some of them were probably fairly
comfortably circumstanced, in the majority of cases, it may be taken, they were if not
poor, or very poor, at least not well off".
The totals for these two groups it will be noted are practically the same.
This may be taken as further evidence that cancer is not a class disease.

With regard to 7 of the deaths referred to in the above and other tables, it should
be pointed out that these were of persons, who, though resident normally outside
England and Wales, died in Marylebone.
The rule that makes it necessary to 'regard such deaths as Marylebone deaths
was referred to in the report for last year. The majority of the 7 persons who died,
and are included here were colonials and died in nursing homes.