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persons. In the Registrar-General's Reports the estimated
population (1894) of the Parish was stated to
be 121,583, a difference which is not worth correction.
The total first given is that used throughout
this Report.
In Table 1 will be found the estimated number
of individuals, in each age-group of the population,
distinguishing the sexes. These figures have been
obtained from the percentages determined at the
Census. It is essential to know the "age-group"
death-rates to form sound conclusions as to the
true incidence of mortality in different years, and
still more so, that in different localities. In the latter
case, the mere comparison between the gross deathrates
is untrustworthy, on account of the disturbance
caused by the different proportions of individuals
living at the various ages.
In 1883 the Registrar-General published certain
"correction factors," based on an examination of the
constitution of the population of England and Wales
as regards sex and age, a deduced "standard deathrate,"
and the mortalities prevailing during the
inter-censal period 1871-81. By the use of these
factors it is possible to reduce the death-rate of any
given district, as determined from the recorded rate
per 1,000 of the total population to a true "corrected
rate," which is strictly comparable with a similar
rate of any other district. Until the Medical Officer of
Health to the London County Council published his