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WE have received the Registrar-General's Statistical Review of England and Wales for the Year 1934 (Tables. Part 1. Medical. London: H.M. Stationery Office. 6s. net). The estimated population for the mid-year was 40,467,000, females exceeding males by nearly a million and a half. Data are given for the last ten years, and in the case of diabetes and pernicious anaemia, the medical treatment of which has made great progress in the last few years, the death-rates per million living were respectively 110 and 65 in 1924, and 160 and 59 in 1934. The death-rate from pernicious anaemia has, therefore, declined, but not that from diabetes, which now appears to be more particularly fatal among elderly females. The death-rate from cancer and tumours was per million 1,363 in 1924 and 1,635 in 1934, the increase being more marked in the male sex. Motor-vehicles accounted for 7,156 deaths, of which nearly one third occurred at the age 20-30 years.
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Vital Statistics for the Year 1934. Nature 137, 104 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137104c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/137104c0