BY SIDNEY G. MARTIN, A. I. A. (lONDON) . 



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The increase in the population was only 22 per cent., so 

 that in both cases the increase in cancer largely exceeded it, 

 though certainly by a great deal more in inaccessible cancer. 



These figures lead us to conclusions widely differing from 

 Mr. King's and Dr. Newsholme's for, in the first place, males and 

 females in Queensland suffer very unequally from cancer in 

 those parts of the body common to man and woman. Allowing 

 for the difference in the number of the sexes, the proportion in 

 -Queensland is as 45 for males to 26 for females in the years 

 1898/99. Also the Frankfort statistics, which alone furnished 

 information as to the various parts of the body affected, show an 

 even rate for cancer in males over 30 years, while in that time 

 our rate has more than doubled. There seems no other con- 

 clusion possible, at least, so far as Queensland is concerned, but 

 that cancer is increasing to a serious extent. I may add that 

 the deaths from cancer in the stomach are exceedingly heavy in 

 •Queensland, especially amongst males, the percentage of deaths 

 from cancer in the stomach to total deaths from cancer is 32 in 

 •Queensland and only 16 in England. 



Diseases of Urinary System. 

 Another disease causing an increasing number of deaths is 

 that of the kidneys, classified under two heads, Bright's disease 

 and nephritis. Kidney disease accounts for the great majority 

 of deaths included under the heading, diseases of the urinary 

 system, and I have extracted the figures for the whole class. 



1875/79 

 1880/84 

 1885/89 

 1890/94 

 1895/99 



The English rates for the year 1898 are for males and 

 females respectively 5-2 and B'9 on the basis of a population 

 aged as in Queensland, which are lower than were our rates 

 during that year. Almost the same rate of increase was shown 

 in the English statistics over a period of 20 years from 1870 to 

 1890 as in Queensland, with a similar accelerated increase in the 

 female section. 



Typhoid Fever. 



There has been a very great diminution during the past ten 

 years in the deaths from this cause, which was at one time 



