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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The next Table shows the total number of deaths in the
Borough and in each sub-district, corrected and uncorrected, as
well as the corrected and uncorrected death-rates.
The death-rate in the County of London during the year 1902
was 17 2 per 1,000, compared with 17.1 in 1901, and 18.3 in 1900,
while in this Borough the same rate was 13.43 in 1902, 13.33 in
1901, and 14.67 in 1900.
The death-rate in England and Wales from all causes in
the year 1902 was 16.3, in the 76 great towns 17.4, and in the 103
smaller towns 15.3 per 1,000.
To compare more correctly the death-rate of this Borough
with the same rate in England and Wales a correction has to be
made for age and sex distribution of the population. In the
decennium ending 1891 the factor for correction was 1068, but a
considerable alteration has taken place in these in the decennium
ending 1901, and the factor has been ascertained to be 1.043, by
which the corrected death-rate must be multiplied. This gives a
rate of 14.00 per 1,000 or 2.3 less than the death-rate for England
and Wales for the year 1902.
In the various Boroughs in the County of London the deathrate
for the year varied considerably, the lowest rates being 10.8
in Hampstead, 13.4 in Stoke Newington, 13.43 in wandsworth,
13.6 in Lewisham, 14.6 in Paddington, and 15.0 in Hackney and
Battersea, while the highest rates were, 20.8 in Bethnal Green and
Bermondsay, 21.3 in Holborn, 21.4 in Southwark, and 22.9 in
Finsbury.