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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

Finchley 1911

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finchley]

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Table: The following table gives the number of deaths and the death-rate from cancer for the last 10 years:—

The following table gives the number of deaths and the death-rate from cancer for the last 10 years:—

No. of Deaths.Death Rate per 1,000.
190019.82
190120.84
190216.64
190322.91
190419.74
190523.80
190624.78
190732.88
190821.53
190934.81
1910501,11
191130.76

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Average for last
10 years 24.1 .79
The Cancer death-rate for England and Wales for the
year 1909 (the last for which complete figures are at present
available) was .95 per 1,000.
It is at least satisfactory to record so low a rate for
Finchley, but it would be too much to hope that the fall in
the death-rate was anything but temporary. For the past
half oentury the death-rate from Cancer for the country
generally has steadily increased, and has more than doubled
in the last forty years.
Some of this increase is due to altered death classification,
some malignant diseases not formerly grouped with
cancer being now included under that heading. Making
liberal allowance for any such discrepancy, however, Cancer
stands out as a disease which exhibits a very definite increase
of mortality. Notwithstanding the fact that for years the