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DEATHS AND DEATH-RATE.
The deaths of 1,701 persons—853 males and 848 females—
were registered in Fulham during 1910; but of these, 99—53
males and 46 females—were of persons not belonging to the
Borough, who died within it, while the deaths of 306 residents
in Fulham—164 males and 142 females—occurred outside
the Borough, chiefly in various public institutions.
There were, therefore, 1,908 deaths of persons belonging to
Fulham—964 males and 944 females—representing an annual
rate of 12.1 per 1,000 of the estimated population, which is
the lowest yet recorded, and 2.9 per 1,000 below the average
rate of the preceding ten years.
The death-rate of males was 12.9, and of females 11.3,
assuming the sex constitution of the population to be the
same as in 1901. The death-rate of the County of London
was 12.7, and among the several Metropolitan Boroughs the
lowest death-rates were 8.6 in Hampstead, 9.6 in Lewisham,
and 10.2 in Wandsworth, while the highest were 16.7 in
Shoreditch, 17.6 in Finbury, and 17.7 in Bermondsey.
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 things 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 RegistrarGeneral
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