19 DECEMBER 1931, Page 15

[To the Editor of the SpEcraTcm.]

Sin,—All that I have read about Cancer in the Spectator is most alarming. May I say that I am sixty-eight years of age and come from an agricultural stock, and that the progeny of my grhandparentage and parents has been very much anti-birth control ? We are legion and yet never a case of cancer. I asked a well-known doctor who has 2,000 patients on his books how many cancer patients he had, and he said only one. The doctor in question, Mr. J. Ellis Barker, and your correspondent all live on the Northern Heights of Finchley. The medical man referred to can make the same claims as regards his family.—I am, Sir, &c.,