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death-rate of 12.99, as compared with 14.0 for London (the
total corrected number of London deaths being 67,632).
A further correction can be made according to age and sex
distribution. This is a more reliable method for ascertaining the
healthiness of a district. The death-rate of a district will vary
according to the character of its population, e.g., a district containing
a large number of very young or very old people will
have a higher death-rate than a district where there is a large proportion
of people of middle age.
The Registrar-General has provided a factor by means of
which the death-rate of each of the Metropolitan Boroughs in the
County of London can be thus corrected and compared. The
factor for Battersea is 1.0728, and the death-rate corrected by this
factor is 12.99× 1.0728 = 13.93 per 1,000.
Sub-dividing the death-rate amongst the three registration
sub-districts, it will be noted that in South-West Battersea a decrease
has been recorded, while in East and North-West Batter
sea an increase, most marked in the first mentioned district, has
taken place. At the same time it is satisfactory to note that the
increase has been slight, and there has been, as pointed out in
the Annual Report for 1908, a steady improvement in the rates
recorded for these two districts, which are mainly inhabited by
the less properous class of the inhabitants of the Borough.