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Column 2 is the sum total of deaths in the district occurring
in the three years in each age-group.
Column 8 is the average percentage of deaths occurring in
each group for the country.
Column 4 is Column 2 expressed as a percentage.
Column 5 shows the percentage ratio of Column 4 to Column 3.
The factors for the separate, age-groups are then : group 0/1,
1.3; group 1/14, 1.3; group 15/24, 0.4; group 15/44, unity;
group 45/49, 0.4, and group over 50, 0.1.
To assess the accuracy of these deductions, the population of
1927 is below constructed, using these factors for the separate agegroups.
In that year 10.7% of deaths in England and Wales
occurred in the age-group 25/44. In Dagenham, in this age-group,
there were 63 deaths. The total deaths occurring in this district
then, were the distribution of the population the same as that
occurring in the country as a whole, would be 588. The death-rate
in England and Wales in 1927 was 12.3 per 1,000 population.
deaths at this rate would occur in a population of 47,800.
In the following table, a total population of 47,990 is shown in
Column 2 distributed in the same proportion in age-groups as holds
for the entire population of the country.