HC Deb 23 June 1942 vol 380 c1837W
Mr. Leach

asked the Minister of Health the number of deaths from cancer and from diabetes in the years 1940 and 1941, according to the Registrar General's statistics?

Mr. E. Brown

The numbers of deaths in England and Wales from cancer and from diabetes in the years 1940 and 1941 are as follow:

1940. 1941.*
Cancer … 68,922 69,228
Diabetes … 5,352 4,865
* These figures are provisional.