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The corrected death-rate is designed to represent the mortality that would have occurred had
the age and sex distribution of the population in Kensington been the same as that of the population
of the country as a whole. The age and sex composition of the population in Kensington favours a
low mortality, and the effect of making allowance for these disturbing factors is to raise the crude
death rate of 13'5 to the corrected rate of 14 6 already given. Where comparisons are instituted
between populations with a widely different age and sex composition the use of corrected deathrates
is essential, but in Kensington and in the Metropolis as a whole the influence of age and sex
is for practical purposes the same, and the crude death-rates shown in the following table may
be accepted as roughly representing the relative mortality in the two areas.
The mortality in Kensington is somewhat less than in London as a whole and in both areas
the death-rate is remarkably low and has fallen steadily during the past 14 years.
The number of deaths and the death-rates in Kensington and London for each quinquennial
period since 1856 will be found in Table IX. Appendix, p. 80. The number of deaths occurring
in each year since the same date and the annual death-rates have been published in the Appendix
of the Annual Reports for 1908 and previous vears.

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Crude Death-rates per 1,000 living.
Kensington. London.
1896-1900 16.4 18.8
1901-1905 14.1 16.4
1906 13.9 15.1
1907 13.7 14.6
1908 13.0 13.8
1909 13.5 14.0