Notes on the Prevalence of Malignant Disease in Bengal
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practicable, so that in a few cases the diagnosis is purely clinical. For the sake of comparison an abstract of two other sets of cases has been prepared. One is taken from the statistics of the Madras General Hospital published by Captain Niblock, whose interesting paper will be found in the Indian Medical Gazette of May 1902. The other series is taken from the annual reports of St. Thomas's Hospital, London, and may be regarded as re-
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