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It will be seen from the above that the increases amount to 75 and the decreases to 233.
Accidental deaths are chiefly accountable for the increase, whereas, the principal cause of
the decrease is the diminished number of deaths from measles, tubercular diseases, bronchitis and
pneumonia.
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 30 such deaths in all, against "20 in
1909, and 37 in 1908.
12 such deaths occurred in the infirmary; 12 in River Thames and Docks; 1 on the
railway, 2 in private houses, and 3 in the street.
542 persons belonging to this Borough died in outlying institutions, against 466 in 1909,
and 530 in 1908. The names of the various places where the deaths occurred will he found in
columns 2 and 3 at foot of Table I. of Appendix.
Table B.—Death-bates corrected for Age and Sex Constitution of the various
Populations, 1910.
Factor for
Correction
for age
and sex
distribution
Crude Deathrate
per 1,000
persons living.
1910.
Corrected
Death-rate
per 1,000
persons living.
1910.
Comparative
Mortality
Figures.
1910.
Area.
England and Wales
1.0000
13.36
13.36
1,000
London, County of
12.71
13.36
1,000
1.0511
1.0677
11.77
12.57
941
Paddington
Kensington
1.0778
11.89
12.82
960
950
Hammersmith
1.0414
12.19
12.69
Fulham
1.0462
10.55
11.04
826
Chelsea
1.0361
12.62
13.08
979
Westminster, City of
1.1217
11.85
12.73
953
St. Marylebone
1.0652
12.82
13.66
1,022
Hampstead
1.1280
8.6
9.71
727
St. Pancras
1.0456
13.75
14.38
1,076
Islington
1.0391
12.85
13.35
999
Stoke Newington
1.0438
10.97
11.45
857
Hackney
1.0420
11.69
912
12.18
Holborn
1.0766
14.94
16.08
1,204
Finsbury
1.0355
17.66
18.18
1,361
City of London
1.0993
15.45
16.98
1,271
Shoreditch
16.70
17.52
1,311
1.0493
Bethnal Green
1.0102
15.32
15.48
1,159
Stepney
1.0450
13.72
14.34
1,073
Poplar
15.17
15.65
1,171
1.0314
Southwark
1.0450
15.91
16.63
1,245
Lambeth
1.0320
12.54
12.94
969
Battersea
1.0728
11.29
12.11
906
Wandsworth
1.0547
10.17
10.73
803
Camberwell
1.0373
12.06
12.51
936
Deptford
1.0511
13.97
14.68
1,099
Greenwich
1.0210
11.60
11.84
886
Lewisham
1.0420
9.64
10.04
751
Woolwich
1.0690
10.46
11.18
837
BERMONDSEY
1.0244
17.65
18.08
1,353
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, ceteris 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 be brought into strict comparison with one another.
" In 1893 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
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 we can put down to
general sanitary conditions alone. In illustration of this I have taken the above figures from
trar-General's Annual Summary for 1910 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 reorded death-rate down, notwithstanding
the grout number of children under 5."