Excerpt from Mortality From Cancer and Other Malignant Tumors in the Registration Area of the United States, 1914 This monograph presents, in greater detail than heretofore shown in the annual mortality reports of the Bureau Of the Census, statistics of deaths occurring in the registration area of the United States during the calendar year 1914 and reported as due to cancer and other malignant tumors. The preparation of this monograph was authorized by the Director of the Cen sus on October 17, 1914, in compliance with the sug gestion of a number of the foremost students of the cancer problem and at the request of the American Society for the Control of Cancer. The request of this society was made in pursuance of the following reso tion, adopted at a meeting of the executive committee on February 7, 1914. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.