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as.' jjwwii living or dead, and In the Utter event, the caueo of death wae eubatanllated Is a elm liar manner, and the rcaalla added to tho original liet of deaths. Death certUlcatea for the province of Quoboc for tho years 1952 to 1V55, laclnelve, were reviewed In the department of vital statistics of the Provincial Health Mlnlatry, together with statistical summaries of the cause* ef deaths in tho Province by counties. All cases in which death was certified tt having been duo to primary cancer of the lung were examined for such in formation a* place of residence, occupation, date of doath, hospital In which death occurred, aad whether or not an autopsy wae performed. Caeos In -ri which lung cancer wae given ao a cause of death, but In which U was not specified es to whethor the cancer originated In tho lung, wero also reviewed ta an effort to Include all Instances of primary carcinoma of the lung in the study. r The statistics for the Province of Quebec relate to population, total *J '- < 4. a*( sffn n C* * fyfH ^ ii: deaths fronsU|l^at and deaths from lung cancer. Those were collected (li aad tabulated by countlas and by ssx for the yoart 1950 to 1955, Inclusive. Prom thorn, death rates for the general population of Quebec and of Individual counties wero calculated for specific years and analyzed fay cause. Practically all employees of ono company ore covered by o group policy of life Insurance which, fortunately, nearly all of them contlnuo to carry wheo they retire. A very few are not covered by this policy, and tboso ho leave the Industry for one reaeou or anothor except rellremont usually arc no longer covarod. but this is llVowloo a email number. As an additional 0265