London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Croydon 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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Comments on Foregoing Table.
The organs most often attacked in descending order of incidence
are, in males the Rectum and Bowels (29.3 per cent.); the
Stomach (17.1 per cent.); the Lungs (12.2 per cent.); the Prostate
(7.3 per cent.); in females, the Bowels and Rectum (25.0 per
cent.); the Breast (23.6 per cent.); the Stomach (14.8 per cent.);
and the Uterus (9.4 per cent.).