[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney] page 45

Hackney 1923

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]

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Table: Deaths frotn Cancer of Breast during the Year1923.

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Deaths frotn Cancer of Breast during the Year1923.

Age.	Civil State.	When growth was When a Doctor first noticed. was first consulted.		Whether there was an operation, and if so, wjien	Remarks.
47	Wife of Boot Laster	12 months before death	At once	No	Received X-ray treatment at Metropolitan Hospital for 11 months before death. Patient was told that she was too stout for an operation as the area for such would be too great.
54	Wife of Wine and Spirit Merchant's Traveller	3 years before death	1 year after growth was first noticed	Yes—4 months after consulting a doctor	6 months after 1st operation a second operation was performed when the whole of breast was removed. Patient received radium treatment for 1 year and 9 months. She had a blow on right breast 3 years before she noticed any growth. No previous history of Cancer known in family.
54	Spinster—Mantle Maker	3 years before death	9 months after noticing growth	Yes—2 years before death and 1 month after consulting doctor	Right breast was entirely removed 2 years before death. Growth rapidly spread up the neck and over the shoulder to the left breast and further operation impossible.
66	Widow	No information obtainable as deceased is unknown at the address given on the death re turns.
81	Wife of Night Watchman		6 months before death	No	Impossible to obtain information as no relatives living except husband, and he is unable to give any details.