View report page

13
DEATHS.—The total number of deaths registered in the district
was 1,823, but as 49 these deaths were of persons who died
in, but resided outside, the Borough, that number has been deducted,
leaving a total of 1,774. This total includes 911 deaths
of Finsbury persons who died in various institutions outside the
district. The crude death rate is, therefore, 18.3 per 1,000 of the
population, as against 20.7 last year. The death rate for the
whole of London in 1907 was 14.6 per 1,000 living as compared
with 15.0 in 1906.
The intra-parochial death rate, that is, the death rate calculated
on the number of persons who actually died inside the
Borough, is 8.9, as compared with 10.6 in 1906. This figure is,
of course, of no value except for local comparative purposes.

These death rates arc "crude" or uncorrected death rates,
that is to say, they are calculated merely on the number of deaths
per 1,000 of the population of Finsbury. They do not take cognisance
of the relative numbers of the sexes nor of the age distribution
of the population. Yet this is necessary for purposes of
comparison with other districts on account of the fact that the
mortality among young children and old people is higher than