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amongst adults, and also higher among males than females.
Therefore it is evident that a district containing many young
children and old people would have a higher death rate than a
district composed more largely of young adults and females. It
is this characteristic which makes "correction "necessary. The
Registrar-General, in his annual summary, gives the "factor for
correction for sex and age distribution "in the seventy-six great
towns in England and Wales, and the Medical Officer of Health
of the Administrative County of London gives a corresponding
factor for each Metropolitan Borough. For Finsbury the factor
is 1.0355, and the true or "corrected" death rate for this
Borough, which allows for the mortality of each sex at different
age periods, is 18.9 per 1,000 living. This compares favourably
with the corrected death rates since the Borough was formed.
It is probably the lowest corrected death rate yet recorded in this
district of London.