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added, giving a corrected number of deaths for Battersea during
1910 of 2,124 (1,099 males and 1,025 females), an excess of 74 males,
and a corrected death-rate of 11.3, as compared with 12.7 for
London (the total corrected number of London deaths being 61,756).
A further correction can be made according to age and sex
distribution. This is a more reliable method for ascertaining the
healthiness of a district. The death-rate for a district will vary
according to the character of its population, e.g., a district containing
a large number of very young or very old people will have
a higher death-rate than a district where there is a large proportion
of people of middle age.
The Registrar-General has provided a factor by means of which
the death-rate of each of the Metropolitan Boroughs in the County
of London can be thus corrected and compared. The factor for
Battersea is 1.0728, and the death-rate corrected by this factor is
11.3x 1. 0728= 12-1 per 1,000.
Sub-dividing the death-rate amongst the three registration subdistricts,
it will be noted that in all three, as compared with 1909,
there have been a decrease in the death-rate, most marked in the
north-west district. Taking the averages for the ten years 1900-1909,
as shown in the following table, there has been a notable decrease in
1910 in the Borough and in the registration sub-districts. This is
especially marked in North-West and East Battersea, districts inhabited
by, on the whole, a less prosperous class than that living in
South-West Battersea.