BY EUGEN HIRSCHFELD, M.D. 7S 



Tasmania, and New Zealand, the coldest countries, show the 

 highest avex'age, while New South Wales and Queensland are 

 the lowest. The rate in Tasmania is nearly twice as large a3 

 that in Queensland (50, 26). I shall deal more extensively with 

 this subject when inquiring into the reasons for the increase of 

 cancer as previously mentioned. In spite of the difference in the 

 distribution the fact remains that cancer has increased in all the 

 colonies without exception. 



Compared with England and Scotland we find that the 

 average in these countries is higher than in Australia, but the 

 relative increase has been considerably smaller at home than out 

 here, as the curves show. 



I do not wish to conclude my paper without expressing my 

 sincere admiration for the great care and skill with which the 

 statistics of the Australian colonies, more particularly of Victoria 

 and Queensland, have been compiled — thus furnishing a most 

 valuable fund of information. It has, nevertheless, been found 

 impossible to present the tables of the various colonies in a 

 uniform manner, since not only do the returns of the various 

 colonies, which are the work of different Registrars-General 

 differ from one another, but in the same colony the returns are 

 constantly being altered and enlarged with the rapidly increas- 

 ing population. 



