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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
Battersea 1922
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea, Metropolitan Borough of]
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Cancer.
During 1922, the number of deaths registered from cancer of
persons belonging to Battersea was 225 (males 110, females 115),
as compared with 189 in 1921, an increase of 19 per cent.
The average number of deaths from cancer during the past
4 years was 203.2. The death-rate from the disease during 1922
was 1.33 per 1,000 of the population, the corresponding deathrate
in 1921 being 1.12.