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The Mortality | from Cancer throughout | the World | by ] Frederick L. 

 Hoffman, LL. D., | F. S. S., F. A. S. A. 1 [5 lines] | Newark, New 

 Jersey | The Prudential Press | 1915 I Cloth, pp. i-xv + 1-826. 



■ The following is an excerpt from the preface by the author : 

 "The work is divided into nine chapters, to all but one of 

 which there is an appendix of forms or tables, which, as a matter 

 of convenience, have been placed together at the end of the 

 volume. Chapter I, on The Statistical Method in Medicine, is 

 amplified by an appendix of the principal cancer classifications, 

 past and present, used in standard textbooks and in the compi- 

 lation of international cancer mortality statistics. * * * 

 Chapter II, on The Statistical Basis of Cancer Research, is a brief 

 discussion of the fundamental statistical facts available for anal- 

 ysis, enlarged by an appendix of the blanks and certificates 

 used in connection with cancer mortality investigations and 

 special research, including the question form for cancer census 

 purposes recommended by the International Association and the 

 special blanks for supplementary inquiries into the facts and 

 circumstances connected with the occurrence of cancer of the 

 uterus, mammary cancer, gastric cancer and cancer of the buccal 

 cavity, adopted and recommended by the Statistical Committee 

 of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, in cooperation 

 with the General Memorial Hospital of the City of New York. 

 Chapter III, on The Increase in Cancer, is an extended discus- 

 sion of the general problem of the observed upward tendency 

 of the cancer death rate throughout the world. * * * The 

 Mortality from Cancer in Different Occupations is discussed in 

 Chapter IV, with an appendix of eight tables of the mortality 

 from cancer in selected industries and employments, derived from 

 the decennial reports of the Registrar-General of England and 

 Wales, but rearranged and recalculated for the present purpose. 

 In addition, the appendix includes cancer mortality data by occu- 

 pations, derived from the industrial mortality experience of The 

 Prudential and the cancer census of Hungary. Chapter V pre- 

 sents an extended discussion of Cancer as a Problem in Life 

 Insurance Medicine, historically and practically considered, with 

 an appendix of 121 tables, including a concise and uniform pre- 

 sentation of the general cancer experience data of a large number 

 of American and foreign life insurance companies and the collec- 

 tive results of the Medico-Actuarial Mortality Investigation. 



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