Denmark, next to Switzerland, is reputed to have the highest cancer death rate of any country in Europe, viz.: 130 per 100,000 living in 1900. But here the statistics are only from the towns, which comprise but a quarter of the whole population: the per capita wealth is said to be higher there than any other country in Europe except France. France shows a high cancer mortality, with a constantly increasing death rate; and, next to England, France is the richest country in Europe, and wealth is much more widely diffused: the French workers own nearly 8 times, per capita, more than those in England. In Paris the cancer death rate has increased as follows, for each 100,000 living, in 1865, 84; in 1870, 91; in 1880, 94; in 1890, 108; in 1900, 120. Italy, a comparatively poor country, shows a low cancer mortality, but even here it is increasing from 20 per 100,000 living in 1880, to 52 in 1899, and 58 in 1905. The consumption of meat is there the smallest in any European nation, namely 23 pounds per capita in 1895. In the chief towns the rate of death from cancer is high: thus for each 100,000 living, in Florence 137, Ravenna 120, Venice 103, Milan 101, and Rome 77. Time does not permit a wider survey of the field of distribution of cancer, as presented so remarkably from official statistics by Williams, and Wolff; but in connection with the high percentages of deaths above quoted among the richer classes it may be interesting to mention some of the lowest records. Thus, in the poor country of Kerry, Ireland, it was 27 per 100,000 living, in the province of Dalmaltia 19, in the Shetland Islands 16, in Servia 8 (from 1895 to 1904), and in Ceylon in 1903 the mortality from cancer was about 6 for each 100,000 living. The United States, unfortunately, has not kept the vital statistics of the country in years past with anything like the fullness and accuracy which has obtained in England, nor even at the present time is it possible to learn definitely the frequency and increase of cancer in every locality. But all the statistics which have been gathered show unequivocally that the disease has steadily increased in a manner which is alarming. Analyzing the recorded deaths from cancer in thirty-one cities, and the percentage of increase in four years, one writer estimates that, if the same increase is continued, by the end of the century there will be a death rate, approximately, of 1000 in every 100,000 inhabitants, or one in every hundred.