| Summary: | THE mortality from gastric cancer is still conspicuously high in Ielancd, although some decline has been observed in recent years. Comparing standardized mortality rates for gastric cancer, 1960-61, in 24 countries, of which 16 were in Europe, Segi and Kurihara (1964) found by far the highest rates in Chile and Japan. For males the rates in these countries were 71-0 and 69-5 respectively per 100,000 and next in order came Austria and Finland with rates about 45 per 100,000. In Iceland the similarly standardized mortality rates, 1958-63, were 55-7 for males and 26-7 for females. For males the rate is distinctly higher than in any other country in Western Europe, but for females there is little difference between
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