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It will be seen from the above that the increases amount to 259 and the decreases to 1!)4.
Diarrhoea, enteritis, and pneumonia are chiefly accountable for the increase, whereas the
principal cause of the decrease is the diminished number of deaths from measles and cancer.
If it were not for the great increase of deaths under the headings of diarrhoea and enteritis
alone due to the long, dry and hot summer, the death-rate would have been the lowest on record.
In column 1, foot of Table I. of the Appendix, will be found a list oh places where deaths
of non-parishioners occurred in the district. There were 22 such deaths in all, against 30 in
1910, and 26 in 1909.
4 such deaths occurred in the infirmary; 1 in the workhouse, Parish Street; 12 in River
Thames and Docks; 1 on the railway; lin a private house; 2in the street; and 1 in a factory.
560 persons belonging to this .Borough died in outlying institutions, against 542 in 1910,
and 466 in 1909. The names of the various places where the deaths occurred will be found in
columns 2 and 3 at foot of Table I. of Appendix.
Table E. Death-rates corrected for Age and Sex Constitution of the various
Populations, 1911.
Area.
England and Wales
London, County of
Factor for
Correction
for age
and sex
distribution
1.0000
1.0511
Crude Deathrate
per 1,000
persons living.
1911.
14.60
Corrected
Death-rate
per 1,000
persons living.
1911.
14.60
15.81
Comparative
Mortality
Figures.
1911.
1,000
1,083
15.04
1.0677
13.35
14.25
976
Paddington
1.0778
13.68
14.74
1,010
Kensington
1.0414
15.57
16.21
1,110
Hammersmith
15.03
1.0462
14.37
1,029
Fulham
1.0361
15.45
16.01
1,097
Chelsea
1.1217
13.97
Westminster, City of
12.45
957
15.09
St. Marylebone
1.0652
16.07
1,101
1.1280
10.87
754
9.64
Hampstead
1,111
1.0456
15.51
16.22
St. Pancras
1,058
1.0391
14.87
15.45
Islington
13.60
Stoke Newington
1.0438
13.03
932
1.0420
14.35
14.95
1,024
Hackney
1.0766
15.69
16.89
1,157
Holborn
1,403
1.0355
19.79
20.49
Finsbury
1.0993
15.09
16.59
1,136
City of London
1.0493
21.06
1,442
Shoreditch
20.07
1,256
1.0102
18.15
18.34
Bethnal Green
1.0450
17.35
18.13
1,241
Stepney
1,332
Poplar
1.0314
18.87
19.46
19.20
1,315
1.0450
18.37
Southwark
14.91
15.39
1,054
Lambeth
1.0320
1.0728
14.30
15.34
1,051
Battersea
11.97
12.62
864
Wandsworth
1.0547
1.0373
14.29
14.82
1,015
Camberwell
1.0511
15.63
1,125
16.43
Deptford
14.72
15.03
1,029
Greenwich
1.0210
11.76
805
Lewisham
1.0420
11.29
13.72
940
1.0690
12.83
Woolwich
1.0244
18.42
18.87
1,292
BERMONDSEY
Note. —The following extract from a previous report explains Table E:-
"Since the mortality per thousand living is much greater among children under 5 and old people,
and is higher at practically all ages among men, it follows that a community which has a preponderance
of these elements will have, ceteris paribus, a higher death-rate than one which has not.
"The age and sex distribution, of the population of England and Wales being taken as a standard to
all communities within their borders, the death-rates of different localities can be calculated on the
assumption that they have the same proportions of children under 5, old people, and women as have the
population of England and Wales. By thus eliminating this disturbing factor of age and sex distribution
different communities can be brought into strict comparison with one another.
"In 1833 the Registrar-General commenced a method of correcting the death-rates of the great
towns of England and Wales. Taking account of the differences of age and sex distribution between
these and the latter, he has calculated a factor for each great town by which the recorded death-rate
must be multiplied so as to allow for the differences of age and sex, and thus places them as regards these
matters on an equal footing. You thus get death-rates the difference in which we can put down to
general sanitary conditions alone. In illustration of this I have taken the above figures from the
Registrar-General's Annual Summary for 1910 to form Table E.
"It will be seen from this that in London and the Boroughs the correction raises the death-rate,
showing that there is in them a preponderance of people living at ages when the death-rate is low (viz.,
between 5 and 50), and also of women, sufficient to keep the recorded death-rate down, notwithstanding
the great number of children under 5."