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It will be seen from the above that the increases amount to 143 and the decreases to 344.
Bronchitis, measles and cancer are chiefly accountable for the increase, whereas the principal
cause of the decrease is the diminished number of deaths from diarrhoea 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 20 such deaths in all, against 22 in 1911, and
30 in 1910.
3 such deaths occurred in the infirmary; 10 in River Thames and Docks; 5 on the Railway;
and 2 in the street.
538 persons belonging to this Borough died in outlying institutions, against 560 in 1911, and
542 in 1910. The names of the various places where the deaths occurred will be 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, 1911.
Factor for
Correction
for age
and sex
distribution.
Corrected
Death-rate
per 1,000
persons living.
1912.
Crude Deathrate
per 1,000
persons living.
1912.
Comparative
Mortality
Figures.
1912.
Area.
England and Wales
0.9790
13.29
13.01
1000
London, County of
Paddington
Kensington
Hammersmith
Fulham
Chelsea
Westminster, City 0f
St. Marylebone
Hampstead
St. Pancras
Islington
Stoke Newington
Hackney
Holborn
Finsbury
City of London
Shoreditch
Bethnal Green
Stepney
Poplar
Southwark
Lambeth
Battersea
Wandsworth
Camberwell
Deptford
Greenwich
Lewisham
Woolwich
BERMONDSEY
1.0000
13.56
13.56
1042
942
0.9941
12.33
12.26
0.9957
13.00
12.94
995
0.9884
13.12
12.97
997
1.0340
12.81
13.25
1018
0.9513
14.55
13.84
1064
1.0540
12.38
13.05
1003
1.0198
13.83
14.10
1084
1.0572
9.82
10.38
798
0.9971
14.60
14.56
1119
0.9749
14.32
13.96
1073
0.9512
12.11
11.52
885
1.0066
12.10
12.18
936
1.0034
15.30
15.35
1180
0.9887
18.77
18.56
1427
1.0419
13.46
14.02
1078
1.0331
18.13
18.73
1440
1.0397
15.31
15.92
1224
1.0433
15.23
15.89
1221
0.9898
16.35
16.18
1244
1.0060
16.70
16.80
1291
0.9804
13.31
13.05
1003
1.0098
12.22
12.34
949
1.0045
10.17
10.22
786
0.9883
12.89
12.74
979
0.9879
13.13
12.97
997
0.9837
13.10
12.89
991
0.9826
10.40
10.22
786
1.0249
11.60
11.89
914
0.9976
16.80
16.76
1288
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 1883 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 we can 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 1912 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."