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of the wards will be ascertainable at five-yearly intervals, it was thought that the value of these
localised statistics would be enhanced by adopting the ward, in place of the sanitary district, as
the unit for the calculation of the death-rate, and this was done. The ward-rate for the whole
year is set out below; and the rate for each of thirteen four-weekly periods in the table at
page 13.
The rate for the several wards was as follows: —
St. Charles 386 deaths, or 17.5 per 1,000 persons living.
Golborne 549 deaths, or 20.8 per 1,000 persons living.
Norland 527 deaths, or 22.4 per 1,000 persons living.
Pembridge 307 deaths, or 15.8 per 1,000 persons living.
Holland 247 deaths, or 12.1 per 1,000 persons living.
Earl's Court 214 deaths, or 11.8 per 1,000 persons living.
Queen's Gate 116 deaths, or 8.1 per 1,000 persons living.
Redcliffe 180 deaths, or 9.6 per 1,000 persons living.
Brompton 124 deaths, or 8.7 per 1,000 persons living.
The True Death-hate of Kensington in 1901.—The death-rate, 15 per 1,000, as calculated
above, is a crude or uncorrected one, not taking cognisance of the relative numbers of the
sexes, nor of the age-distribution of the population. Correction for these data involves addition
to, or subtraction from, the " recorded death-rate," as compared with the " standard deathrate."*
The necessity for such correction in this borough is obvious, having regard to the great
excess of females in the population, and to the lower death-rate in the female sex as compared
with the rate in the male sex. At the recent census females were 38,460 in excess of males.
The deaths among the 69,229 males (1,233) were only 184 fewer than the deaths among the
107,771 females (1,417). The crude death-rate in the male sex was 17.6 per 1,000, as compared
with the rate of 13.2 per 1,000 in the female sex. It is obvious, therefore, that if the
numbers of the sexes had been equal, the death-rate would have been higher than the recorded
rate (15.0 per 1,000). The Registrar-General some years since, gave the " factor for correction
for sex and age-distribution " in the thirty-three great towns of England and Wales ; and in
his annual report for 1900, the medical officer of health of the County Council gave the factor for
each of the sanitary districts of London. Corrected after the method indicated, the death-rate
of Kensington, in 1901, becomes, instead of 15.0, one of about 16.5 per 1,000; and the rate
for London, as a whole, about 18.8 instead of 17.6. The "true" death-rate is that which shows
the mortality per 1,000 living of each sex at different age-periods, and this is shown for the
borough in the subjoined table: —
Age-Period.
Population.
Deaths.
Death-rate.
Both
Sexes.
Males.
Females.
Both
Sexes.
Males.
Females.
Both
Sexes.
Male Sex.
Female
Sex.
Under five years of age 14,178 7,071 7,107 876 460 416 61.8 65.1 58.5
Five and under 15 25,954 12,621 13,333 73 44 29 2.8 3.5 2 2
Fifteen and under 25 38,310 13,489 24,821 92 50 42 2.4 3.7 1.7
Twenty-five and under 35 35,047 11,515 23,532 147 70 77 4.2 6.1 3.3
Thirty-five and under 45 24,869 9,460 15,409 232 105 127 9.3 11.1 | 8.2
Forty-five and under 55 18,211 7,235 10,976 285 140 145 15.6 19.3 13.2
Fifty-five and under 65 11,595 4,595 7,000 330 137 193 28.5 29.8 27.6
Sixty-five and under 75 6,137 2,311 3,826 295 114 181 48.1 49.3 47.3
Seventy-five and upwards 2,699 932 1,767 320 113 207 118.6 121.2 117.1
Totals 177,000 69,229 107,771 2,650 1,233 1,417
*The standard death-rate signifies the death-rate at all ages, calculated on the hypothesis that the rates at each of
twelve age-periods in each town were the same as in England and Wales, during the 10 years 1881-90, the death-rate in
England and Wales during that period having been 19.15 per 1,000. (Registrar-GeneralsAnnual Summary.)