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The following table shows the occupations of the 48 persons
who died from cancer during the year 1930.
Male. Female.
Gas workers 4 Spinsters 2
General labourers 3 Wives 15
Painters 2 Widows 9
Master Hairdresser 1
Master Builder 1
Master Mariner 1
Fisherman 1
Cooper 1
Warehouse Carman 1
Lead Burner 1
Farm Foreman 1
Schoolmaster 1
Hawker 1
Coal Porter 1
Night Watchman 1
Clerk 1
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The above table shows that cancer is distributed throughout
the whole of the population. The largest number appears amongst
gas workers, but then of course Beckton is a very big works and we
are dealing with one year only. It would, however, be interesting
from a national standpoint to see whether cancer is more prevalent
amongst gas workers than persons of other occupations.
(e) Influenza.—Your Medical Officer has been in constant
touch throughout the year with the medical practitioners in the
town, and at the end of the year sent out a questionnaire as to nonnotifiable
acute infectious diseases, notably influenza.
From the information available it appears that influenza was
the only such non-notifiable disease of any considerable incidence,
that this influenza was prevalent at various seasons throughout