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495 persons belonging to this Borough died in outlying institutions, against 449 in 1903.
The names of the various places where the deaths occurred will be found in columns 2 and 3 at
foot of Table I. of Appendix. As remarked in last year's Report, these numbers show a tendency
to increase owing to the greater advantages now taken of treatment in hospitals, the average for
the last ten years being 427, showing an increase of 68 in 1904.
Table D. —Death Rate.
Rotherhithe.
St. Olave's.
Whole
Borough.
London.
Year.
Bermondsey.
20.35
20.1
17.4
19.10
22.20
1894
21.89
19.47
26.44
21.6
19.4
1895
20.70
22.44
21.6
18.2
1896
21.95
19.20
21.4
17.7
1897
22.22
22.54
1898
21.05
19.56
21.42
20.6
18.3
24.70
22.11
26.42
24.1
19.3
1899
23.49
22.79
22.91
23.2
18.3
1900
21.44
19.43
20.93
20.8
17.1
1901
21.66
19.30
24.62
21.2
17.2
1902
17.08
18.4
15.1
1903
18.54
22.23
21.3
17.8
Average
for years
1894-1903
19.87
21.73
23.21
1904—
On estimated
population.
19.91
20.1
16.0
27.65
18.59
19.83
On Census
population.
19.77
18.51
25.06
The following extract from the Annual Report for 1903 explains Table E. below
"Since the mortality per thousand living is much greater among children under 5
and old people, and is higher at practically all ages among men, it follows that a
community which has a preponderance of these elements will have ceteris paribus a
higher death rate than one which has not.
"The age and sex distribution of the population of England and wales being taken
as a standard to all communities within their borders, the death rates of different
localities can be calculated on the assumption that they have the same proportions of
children under 5, old people and women, as have the population of England and Wales.
By thus eliminating this disturbing factor of age and sex distribution different communities
can be brought into strict comparison with one another.
"In 1883 the Registrar-General commenced a method of correcting the death
rates of the great towns of England and Wales. Taking account of the differences of
age and sex distribution between and the latter, he has calculated a factor for each
great town by which the recorded death rate must be multiplied so as to allow for the
differences of age and sex, and thus places them as regards these matters on an equal
footing. You thus get death rates, the differences in which can be put down to general
sanitary conditions alone. In illustration of this I have taken the following rates for a
table calculated on the Registrar's method by the Medical Officer of the London County
Council, published in his Annual Report for 1902.
"It will be seen from this that in London and the Boroughs the correction raises
the death rate, showing that there is in them a preponderance of people living at ages
when the death rate is low (viz., between 5 and 50), and also of women, sufficient to
keep the recorded death rate down, notwithstanding the great number of children
under 5."
Table E.-Death Rates corrected for Age and Sex Constitution of the
various Populations.
Year.
Factor for
Correction of
Age and Sex
Distribution.
Corrected
Death Rate.
Crude
Death Rate.
District.
18.1
1.05107
17.2
1902
London
1.03788
16.3
16.9
1902
Camberwell
1.05107
17.3
1902
16.5
21.4
Deptford
22.4
1.04684
Southwark
1902
1902
1.03375
21.2
21.9
BERMONDSEY
1.03375
18.4
19.0
1903
„
1.0244
20.1
20.6
1904
„