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From a consideration of this important Table, it will be seen
that if the death rates at each of twelve age periods and in each
sex had been the same in the Borough of Greenwich as they
were in the whole of London during the year 1901, then the
Death Rate of Greenwich should have been 17.70 per 1,000, but
as we have assumed that the Death Rates at each of the age
periods and for each sex were identical, therefore the difference
between the two standard Death Rates thus obtained will be seen
to be entirely due to the difference in the age and sex constitution
of the two populations under comparison, therefore from these two
figures we easily obtain the figure (or the factor for correction for
age and sex distribution) which must be applied to the crude or
recorded Death Rate of the district to obtain the corrected
Death Rate, which Death Rates are the more strictly comparable,
as the disturbing effect upon the Death Rate of any excess or
diminution of young children or old persons in the population of
the district has thus been properly discounted. The comparative
mortality figure also shows that (taking the Borough average as
the basis) for every 315 deaths in Kidbrooke there were 855 in
Charlton, 963 in East Greenwich, 1,072 in West Greenwich, and
the appalling number of 1,489 in St. Nicholas.
The Districts placed in order of healthiness, as judged by
their strictly comparable corrected Death Rates, are accordingly
as follows :—
First Kidbrooke, with the very small figure of 4.66 per 1,000;
then Charlton, with 12.65 per 1,000; next East Greenwich, with
14.24 per 1,000, and each and all of these districts have Death
Rates below 14.78, the mean for the whole of the Borough; whereas
West Greenwich comes next with 15.85 per 1,000, which is only