The most careful inquiries have failed to show that occupation exercises any material influence upon the development of gastric carcinoma, while the fact that married women suffer from the complaint equally with men seems to point to a similar conclusion. The following table, which is taken from the Fifty-fifth Annual Report of the Registrar-General of England, indicates the relative incidence of cancer in males engaged in different forms of employment, but since the primary seat of the disease is not specified its conclusions are not entirely relevant to the gastric lesion.

Table 19.-Cancer Deaths In Males. Highest And Lowest Mortality For Certain Occupations, Showing The Comparative Figure To 1,000 Deaths From All Causes (England) 1

Above the average [47 per mil.] Occupations

Comparative figure

Below the average [47 per mil.] Occupations

Comparative figure

Chimney-sweeps

156

Medical profession .

43

Copper-miners

86

Miners, all classes .

37

Brewers ....

70

Farmers ....

36

Innkeepers (London)

70

Agricultural labourers

36

Inn servants .

67

Gardeners

36

Commercial travellers

63

Coalminers

36

Plasterers

62

Clergymen

35

Barristers and solicitors .

60

Potters ....

35

Merchant seamen .

60

Grocers ....

34

Innkeepers (industrial

Hosiery-makers

30

districts)

58

Lace-makers .

28

Milk-sellers

58

Lead-workers .

27

General labourers

Coalminers (S. Wales) .

26

(London)

58

Paper-makers.

22

Butchers.

57

Occupied males (London) Occupied males (industrial districts)

59 48

All occupied males . All occupied males (agricultural districts)

44 40