We cannot deny that, with the recent rise in the recovery rate of cancers, the significance of mortality statistics in studying the geographical distribution of cancer has been reduced, but seeing that in many part of the world, however, no survey on cancer morbidity has been carried out to date, we believe, the significance has not yet been lost altogether. We applied to the central statis tical administrations of many countries and have been kindly supplied with data on the mortality for cancer. In this report, we will write on the ageadjusted death rates for cancer for the two years of 1954 and 1955 and on the geographical correlation among them. Method of StudyWe have been furnished with the statistical data on the population and the mortality for cancers in some specified sites by the central statistical adminis trations of 23 countries and calculated the age-adjusted death rates. The countries from which we were furnished the data were as follows :

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