Incidence of perforated duodenal and gastric ulcer in Oxford.

Abstract

EDITORIAL COMMENT A detailed study of particular value for comparison with other centres, it provides further evidence of the falling incidence of duodenal ulcer in Great Britain. In and around Oxford the incidence of perforated peptic ulcer was 14/100,000 in 1957 and in 1963 it was 7/100,000, the fall being due to duodenal and not to gastric ulcer.