Mortality from cancer

Abstract

To the Editor: —Referring to the editorial comment (The Journal, October 17, p. 1224) on my article on cancer mortality in the ten original registration states: In the course of the preparation of the bulletin of which this article is a summary, I, too, was struck by the apparent discrepancy between my conclusions for the ten original registration states and those arrived at by Dr. William T. Howard in his study of the statistics of the city of Baltimore (The Journal, Jan. 13, 1923, p. 71). This apparent discrepancy led me, of course, to careful study of Dr. Howard's article. From internal evidence in the article itself, it was apparent that the figures and the rates published were erroneous and, therefore, the conclusions based thereon could not be correct. In his article, Dr. Howard publishes the following table for the city of Baltimore: From his table the following conclusion is