Out oi 8,468 necropsies collected principally from British hospitals, Brinton found cancer of the stomach recorded in eightyone, or in about 1 percent.; while 14,974 performed at the London and London Temperance Hospitals between 1880 and 1896 included 239 examples of the disease (1.6 per cent.). In Paris, between 1861 and 1863 the proportion of deaths from the complaint in every hundred deaths was 1.9. In Berlin, the postmortem statistics of Hahn and Guttmann present a ratio of 2.9 ; in Vienna the figure would appear to be 15, in Prague 3.5, in Helsingfors 4, and in Copenhagen 9. The excessive frequency of the disease in the last-named city may be explained to some extent by the advanced age of most of the patients admitted to the hospitals, but it is interesting to remember that Copenhagen is also celebrated for the prevalence of gastric ulcer (Dahlerup).

Table 9.-Post-Mortem Statistics