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In Registration London the death-rate last year
was 17.4 per 1,000, after allotting the deaths of
residents who died in outlying institutions to their
proper districts, and that for England and Wales,
16.59.
As mentioned in an earlier paragraph (page 8),
the rates given above are not strictly comparable,
owing to the fact that no account is taken of the
differences of the compositions of the populations quâ
age and sex. The following statement shows the true
rates for Paddington and London : —
Standard rate.
Recorded rate,
commonly called
"Uncorrected" rate.
"Corrected" rate.
Paddington 17.72 15.78 17.05
London 17.96 17.76 18.93
England and Wales 19.15 16.59 16.59
In Paddington the average annual number of
deaths during the decennium 1884-93 was 1,945,
which becomes on correction for the increase in the
population, 2,053. The corrected total of last year
(1,831) was, therefore, 222 below the corrected
average; that is to say, if the death-rate of last
year had been the same as the mean rate for the
last ten years, 222 more individuals would have
passed away. In London the saving of life
amounted to 11,660 persons.
The "natural increment," i.e., the excess of
births over deaths, was 1,003 last year, as compared
with a decennial average of 986. The increment
of last year was equal to 0.81 per cent. of the
estimated population at the middle of the year.