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The recorded general death-rate is therefore 12.6, as against
14.6 for the preceding year. This ordinary death-rate, however,
cannot be taken as a true index of the healthiness of the Borough,
nor can it be justly compared with the rates of other Sanitary
areas, unless some allowance is made for the relative proportions
of males and females at different ages in the districts compared.
The so-called "factor for correction" for the Borough of
Stoke Newington is 0.9512, and the death-rate corrected for age and
sex distribution is 12.6×0.9512=12.0 per 1,000 per annum.
In arriving at this corrected death-rate the deaths of nonresidents
who have died in Public Institutions within the Borough
have, of course, been excluded.
The recorded rate is below that for the preceding year, when
it was 14.6. This decrease is almost entirely due to fewer deaths
from Diseases of the Lungs, Measles, Diphtheria, and Influenza.
The death-rate for the whole of London was 143.
There were only four other Metropolitan Boroughs with lower
death-rates than that of Stoke Newington, viz.: Hampstead, 10.3;
Lewisham, 11.6; City of London and Wandsworth, 11.7.
District Mortality.—The deaths among residents of the
Northern Division of the Borough numbered 216, and furnished
a recorded death-rate of 12.9 per 1,000 per annum.
The deaths among the residents of the Southern Division of
the Borough numbered 409, and furnished a recorded death-rate
of 12.4 per 1,000 per annum.