Show NATION UA LEAGUE UE 1 TO INVESTIGATE If I 1 CAUSE To Probe Relation of Disease Disease Dis- Dis ease to Geography and Race WILL COVER wO WOI Problem Probably wih Take Year k By HENRY WOOD United Press Staff Correspondent GENEVA 12 United Press The league of nations hat Jias assigned itself the task tak of lI taming to what extent cancer r I bs a 3 matter of geography and race f With over people from this scourge the lem Is one of most that tha t has been und undertaken by the f health organization df f the league While the theory has long been held that can eaner er is less and less deadly In certain countrIes and with certain races than with others efforts to arrive at any scientifically established conclusions conclusions' have met with serious obstacles In the first place the different manner in different countries o of diagnosis registration and thees- thees of statistics rendered comparison difficult and In the see ond place the problem was too great for Individual physicians physicians' or scientists to undertake alone STATISTICS READY With the preparatory work worl al a. a ready done by the International Health Organization o of the league In providing for a common system of statistics itt In a great many countries countries coun- coun tries and with the whole lion lion- of the league back ot of It it is believed that definite results can r now be obtained The Investigation will last for a year ear at least and will wUl embrace virtually virtually vir- vir the entire world It will wUl hav havas have as a basis cert certain ln results that have already been obtained In Europe and which Indicate that the geography and race play no a very important role Iole In the matter ot of cancer These observations today show that the northern races of Europe are the heaviest sufferers from can er The Celtic race Is less Seriously seriously se- se affected while the races ot of the Iberian and the Island Island Is- Is land races are least affected AMONG ISLAND RACES As regards the Island populations these of the northern islands have havea a great deal more cancer than those on n the Mediterranean hat this tendency o have can can- canI I It not merely a matter ot of geog- geog j I hut also of r race ce is demont demon demon- t the that fact the alJ A nt d' d to 1 general lenex l tend f i slie tl ti r s I cancer lh 4 In nce I II I general and f fatal tal 1 wl ere 30 1 pe peI pel I deaths are arel hat ils also It ha has has' been the death rate Is 16 per per cent I 13 p per r cent in the portion i |