Gribben, St. Leger Hugh

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1904

At the present time the question of the nature of cancer and its relative incidence under varying conditions is uppermost in medical literature. The problems requiring solution are at present in a stage in which even contributions of a negative nature iri specific directions have a value which does not always attach to such studies.

In this thesis I shall consider the incidence of cancer among the inmates of two lunatic asylums.

Statements are frequently made to the effect that cancer is rare or does not occur among lunatics, and by inference one might he led to believe that the two conditions mutually excluded one another.

It was originally my intention to investigate this question on the basis of the t figures obtain - able from all the asylums under the control of the London County Council. The abstraction and tabulation of the data has, however, been a labour far exceeding my expectation and has occupied so much time that up till now I have only been able to overtake the work with reference to two asylums. The work is all the more difficult to carry out because the records are not kept with a view to the future abstraction of the data here given and the separate records have therefore to be referred to.

http://hdl.handle.net/1842/28159

The University of Edinburgh

Annexe Thesis Digitisation Project 2017 Block 16

The occurrence of cancer among lunatics

Thesis or Dissertation

MD Doctor of Medicine