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grand total of 1,715. There were six deaths registered
in the District of persons not belonging to it, making a
corrected total of 1,709. The death rate for the year
after making these corrections is 13.9. Last year it
was 13.7. From the remarks made under the heading
of population it will be seen that the death rate thus
corrected is not quite comparable with the death rates
similarly corrected for other districts, for the reason
that the age and sex distribution of the populations
whose rates are compared may be totally different,
and in itself this would favour or discredit as the case
might be the Districts between which a comparison
was instituted.
If, therefore, the death rate in Willesden is to be
compared with the death rate in other Districts, it is
evident that difference in age and sex distribution
niust be allowed for, and in order to do this I have
calculated the standard mortality for Willesden, its
population being distributed as at the census.
The comparison, of course, must be made between
such a corrected death rate and a death rate similarly
corrected for the district compared.