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It will be seen from the above that the increases amount to 112 and the decreases to 303.
Respiratory diseases and premature birth are Ihe principal items in the increase,
whereas the chief cause of the decrease is the diminished number of deaths from Summer
diarrhoea.
In column 1, foot of Table I. of the Appendix, will be found a list of places where deaths
of non-parishioners occurred in the district. There were 25 such deaths in all, against 20 in
1906, and 33 in 1905.
7 such deaths occurred in the Infirmary; 11 in River Thames and Docks; 1 on railway ;
1 on Rotherhithe Tunnel Works; 3 in street; 1 in South Wharf and 1 in Tower Bridge Police
Station.
507 persons belonging to this Borough died in outlying institutions, against 570 in 1906,
and 521 in 1905. The names of the various places where the deaths occurred wili he found in
columns 2 and 3 at foot of Table I. of Appendix.
Table E—Death Rates corrected for Age and Sex Constitution of the various
Populations, 1906.
Corrected
Death Rate
per 1000
persons living.
Comparative
Mortality
figures
(London 1000.)
Crude Death
Rate per 1000
persons living.
Factor for
Correction
for age
and sex
distribution
Standard
Death
Rate.
Area.
1906
1901-5
1906
1901-5
1906
1901-5
I
England and Wales
1.0000
18-19
16.9
1.0511
15.1
1000
17.31
16.1
London
15.9
1000
Paddington
17.04
1.0677
13.8
12.5
14.7
836
13.3
870
16.88
1.0778
13.8
15.6
14.9
937
Kensington
14.5
923
Hammersmith
17.47
1.0414
15.4
16.0
969
14.8
15.4
947
Fulham
17.39
1.0462
15.5
16.2
14.3
959
899
13.7
Chelsea
17.56
1.0361
16.2
16.8
16.3
994
1025
15.7
Westminster, City of
16.22
1.1217
14.5
12.9
16.3
912
14.5
964
17.08
1.0652
16.6
14.9
17.7
15.9
St. Marylebone
1047
1000
Hampstead
16.13
10.2
9.4
11.5
10.6
667
1.1280
680
St. Pancras
1.0456
17.3
18.1
16.6
17.40
15.9
1071
1044
1.0391
15.3
14.7
15.9
Islington
17.51
15.3
941
962
1.0438
13. 1
13.7
Stoke Newington
17.43
11.5
12.0
811
755
874
Hackney
17.46
1.0420
14.7
13.3
15.3
13.9
905
Holborn
20.7
1220
16.90
1.0766
19.2
18.0
19.4
1225
Finsbury
17.57
1.0355
21.0
20.7
21.7
21.4
1284
1346
City of London
19.6
16.55
1.0993
17.8
17.3
19.0
1160
1195
Shorebditch
17.34
1.0493
20.4
19.6
21.4
20.6
1266
1296
Bethnal Green
18.01
1.0102
19.4
18.9
19.6
19.1
1160
1201
20.2
Stepney
17.41
1.0450
19.3
17.7
18.5
1195
1164
19.3
Poplar
17.64
1.0314
18.7
17.6
18.2
1142
1145
Southwark
17.41
1.0450
19.9
18.1
20.8
18.9
1231
1189
Lambeth
17.63
1.0320
16.1
15.0
16.6
15.5
982
975
Battersea
16.96
1.0728
14.9
13.4
16.0
14.4
947
906
Wandsworth
17.25
1.0547
13.1
12.8 .
13.8
819
13.5
817
17.54
15.0
14.6
15.6
950
Camberwell
1.0373
15.1
923
Deptford
17.31
1.0511
15.7
16.5
16.9
1063
16.1
976
14.6
Green wich
17.82
1.0210
14.3
13.5
13.8
864
868
786
Lewisham
17.46
1.0420
12.3
12.0
12.8
12.5
757
Woolwich
15.1
881
17.02
1.0690
14.1
13.1
14.0
893
20.3
1270
BERMONDSEY
17.76
1.0244
19.8
19.7
20.2
1201
Do. 1907
-
18.3
18.7
-
-
-
-
-
(1907)
(1907)
Note. —The following extract, from a previous report, explains Table E : —
"Since the mortality per thousand living is much greater among children under 5 and old people,
and is higher at practically all ages among men, it follows that a community which has a preponderance
of these elements will have cetcris paribus a higher death rate than one which has not.
"The age and sex distribution of the population of England and Wales being taken as a standard to
all communities within their borders, the death rates of different localities can be calculated on the
assumption that they have the same proportions of children under 5. old people and women, as have the
population of England and Wales. By thus eliminating this disturbing factor of age and sex distribution
different communities can he brought into strict comparison with one another
"In 1888 the Registrar-General commenced a method of correcting the death rates of the great
towns of England and Wales Taking account of the differences of age and sex distribution between
these and the latter, he has calculated a factor for each great town by which the recorded death rate
must be multiplied so as to allow for the differences of age and sex, and thus places them as regards these
matters on an equal footing. You thus get death rates, the difference in which can be put down to
general sanitary conditions alone. In illustration of this I have taken the above figures from the
Registrar-General's Annual Summary for 190S, to form table E.
"It will be seen from this that in London and the Boroughs the correction raises the death rate,
showing that there is in them a preponderance of people living at ages when the death rate is low (viz.,
between 5 and 50), and also of women, sufficient to keep the recorded death rate down, notwithstanding
the great number of children under 5."