§ Mr. T. SMITHasked the Minister of Health the number of houses built under each of the Housing Acts by the Pontefract Borough Council and by the urban district councils of Goole, Knottingley and Castleford, respectively?
§ Mr. GREENWOODThe following statement contains the desired particulars:
decrease in deaths from cancer each year since the Imperial Cancer Research Fund was started, taking the figures for the first year as a basis?
§ Mr. GREENWOODMy hon. Friend will understand that it is impossible for me to answer his question in the precise form in which he asks it. I can, however, inform him what the percentage increase has been in the certificates of cause of deaths classified to cancer in England and Wales in each of the years from 1903 to 1930 as compared with the number of deaths registered and so classified in the year 1902. The figures are as follow:
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1903 … … … 4.37 1904 … … … 6.49 1905 … … … 8.43 1906 … … … 13.62 1907 … … … 13.90 1903 … … … 17.38 1909 … … … 22.18 1910 … … … 24.16 1911 … … … 28.81 1912 … … … 33.91
1913 … … … 39.71 1914 … … … 41.78 1915 … … … 42.96 1916 … … … 45.77 1917 … … … 47.67 1918 … … … 47.92 1919 … … … 51.21 1920 … … … 56.74 1921 … … … 65.12 1922 … … … 68.28 1923 … … … 74.61 1924 … … … 80.79 1925 … … … 86.35 1926 … … … 90.94 1927 … … … 94.02 1928 … … … 101.83 1929 … … … 104.13 1930 … … … 107.67 (based on provisional figures).