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Corrected Death-rate.
Death-rates vary considerably in different localities
according to the age constitution of the populations, and in a
district with a population comprising a large number of infants
or very old people the death-rate, other conditions being similar,
would of necessity be higher than that of one containing a
large proportion of people of middle age. For the correction
of the differences due to age and sex constitution, factors of
correction have been published by the Registrar General for
the provincial towns, and by the Medical Officer of Health of
the London County Council for the metropolitan boroughs, and
the multiplication of the recorded death-rate of a district by its
factor of correction gives the death-rate which would obtain,
if the age and sex constitution of the population were in the
same proportion as it is in the whole of England and Wales,
thus eliminating the differences due to age and sex.
In the following table the crude and corrected death-rates
of Fulham may be compared with those of the adjoining
boroughs, the County of London, England and Wales and
the large and small towns.

Seasonal Mortality.
The mortality in the four quarters of the year was as
under:—