§ Mr. RHYS DAVIESasked the Minister of Health whether he can state the number of deaths from cancer and kindred malignant tumours in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, respectively, for each of the last ten years, giving also the death rate per million inhabitants from those causes for each of those countries?
§ Sir K. WOODFor England and Wales as a whole the figures are as follow:
No. of Deaths. Persons. Standardized death rates per million persons living. 1926 53,220 999 1927 54,078 996 1928 56,253 1,011 1929 56,896 1,010 1930 57,883 1,003 1931 59,346 998 1932 60,716 1,001 1933 61,572 997 1934 63,263 1,003 1935 64,507 1,001 Corresponding figures for England and for Wales separately are not available, though certain figures for Wales are given in the Registrar-General's Statistical Review (Part I, 1926–30, Table 20; Part I, 1931–35, Table 24; Text Volume, 1931–34, Cancer Section), to which the hon. Member may care to refer. As regards the figures for Scotland and Northern Ireland, inquiry should be addressed to the appropriate Secretary of State in each case.