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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Finsbury 1910
Annual report on the public health of Finsbury for the year 1910
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the Borough was incorporated. The death-rate for the whole
of London was 12.7, as compared with 14.03, 14.0, and 14.6
in 1909, 1908, and 1907 respectively.
| The Borough. | North Clerkenwell. | South Clerkenwell. | St. Luke. | St. Sepulchre. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901 | 21.4 | 20.0 | 20.3 | 23.7 | 18.8 | |
| 1902 | 22.7 | 22.3 | 20.7 | 24.3 | 20.1 | |
| 1903 | 19.8 | 19.2 | 18.3 | 21.7 | 19.0 | |
| 1904 | 21.1 | 21.7 | 18.9 | 22.0 | 23.0 | |
| 1905 | 18.9 | 18.5 | 17.3 | 20.2 | 25.2 | |
| 1906 | 20.7 | 22.7 | 18.6 | 20.3 | 24.7 | |
| 1907 | 18.3 | I7.5 | 16.4 | 20.3 | 24.9 | |
| 1908 | 18.4 | 18.3 | 18.9 | 10.3 | ||
| 1909 | 19.0 | 18.5 | 19.9 | 20.7 | ||
| 1910 | 17.3 | 17.2 | 17.5 | 15.7 | ||
In comparing one borough or district with another, it is
important to take into account the number of young people and
old people in both, and the number of males and females.
For infants and old people have a higher death-rate than young
adults, and females at all ages have lower death-rates than males,
save for the interval 10 years to 20 years, when the female rate
is slightly higher.
Before comparison, therefore, can be legitimately made between
the death-rates of different towns it is necessary that these
inequalities due to differences in sex and age distribution should
be levelled. For this purpose the Registrar-General has calculated
a factor for each town which, when multiplied into the crude
death-rate gives the death-rate corrected for age and sex distribution,
and this is available for comparison with the rates in
other districts.