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General Mortality.—The number of deaths registered among
parishioners in the parish was 196. To this number an additional
33 must be added, on account of those parishioners who died in
institutions without the parish, making a total of 229. Of these,
105 were males, and 124 were females.
The recorded general death-rate from the returns of the last
three-quarters of 1894 amounts to 9.07 per 1,000 per annum.
This ordinary death-rate, however, cannot be taken as a true index
of the conditions affecting the healthiness of the population, nor
can it be compared with the rates of other parishes, unless some
allowance is made for the relative proportions of persons of different
ages and sexes in the parishes compared. Obviously since, apart
from health influences, the number of young children and old
people in the community will always influence the death-rate, and
since the death-rate varies among the two sexes at different periods
of life, any comparison of death-rates which does not take these
facts into consideration might be most deceiving. For the purpose
of making a just comparison therefore, it is necessary to correct
the recorded death-rate by means of a factor, which is arrived at,
just after census returns are available, from a comparison of the
proportions of each sex at each age-period which exist in the
different sanitary areas, with those proportions which exist in
England and Wales generally. This so-called " factor for
correction," worked out for the Hackney Parish, when this
included Stoke Newington, was 1.05047, and if we apply this
factor to our recorded death-rate, the corrected death-rate becomes
9.52 per 1,000 per annum. A remarkably low rate!
In arriving at this corrected death-rate, the deaths of nonparishioners
who have died in public institutions within the parish
(14 in all) have, of course, been excluded.
The General Mortality in England arid Wales and certain Cities
during the same period.—England and Wales, 15.5 per 1,000 per
annum, the 33 Great Towns, 17.2, *Greater London, 15.5,
* Population, 5,948,300.