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(b) CANCER.
The number of deaths attributed to cancer was 338.
The following table gives an analysis of the age and sex distribution as well as
the localisation of the disease in all persons certified as dying from cancer during the
year.
Age Groups
Malignant Neoplasms
Other
Malignant &
Lymphatic
Neoplasms
TOTAL
Stomach
Lung &
Bronchus
Leukaemia &
Aleukaemia
Breast
Uterus
M.
F.
M.
1 F.
M.
F.
F.
F.
M.
F.
0-14
-
•
—
1
«.
«
-
1
15 - 24
-
-
-
-
-
1
-
-
-
2
3
25 - 44
1
1
2
-
AO
4
1
4
4
17
45 - 64
16
6
47
6
1
1
17
5
21
11
131
65 - 7^
12
7
17
1
2
1
2
8
3
39
23
114
75 and over
13
10
8
1
-
-
7
2
14
17
72
Total:
42
24
74
9
2
5
36
11
7$
57
338
Nineteen per cent of the deaths from all causes in the Borough were due to cancer
compared with 18 per cent for all deaths registered in England and Wales.
(c) VENEREAL DISEASES.
The Special Clinic for the investigation, follow-up and treatment of venereal
diseases is held at Queen MaryTs Hospital for the East End, Stratford, under the
direction of the Consultant Venereologist, Dr.F.G.MacDonald, to whom I am indebted for
the following report. (The figures in brackets are the corresponding ones for 1955)•
The total number of patients who attended was 530 (603). This figure includes
134 already under treatment or observation at the beginning of the year.
New patients ... 396 (483)
Total attendances 3,094 (3,036)
The diagnosis was as follows:-
Syphilis in the primary or secondary stage 2 (l)
Syphilis in the early latent stage .....1 (0)
Syphilis in the later (non~infective) stages.........8 (9)
Congenital Syphilis 2 (5)
Gonorrhoea ....52 (51)
Urethritis . .46 (36)
Other conditions....... .....248 (347)
Cases previously treated elsewhere 11 (l6)
Return cases 26 (17)
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