Abstract
<h3>To the Editor:</h3> —The suggestion has occasionally been made that much might be learned from a careful examination of prison mortality records regarding the relative frequency of cancer among convicts. Obviously, such an investigation would have to be confined to institutions for serious offenders, serving relatively long sentences, possibly for life. As a preliminary contribution, I addressed a letter to some of our penal establishments, and the results for four representative institutions are presented here. The investigation covers the decade 1914-1923, and shows in each case the number of convicts under observation and the number of cancer deaths reported among them. For Sing Sing prison, unfortunately, only the average number of convicts is given and placed at 9,600, but the variation in the number actually exposed to risk would probably not be a matter of serious concern. For Sing Sing also the information is only for the last eight years.
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