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Deaths.- The corrected number of deaths was 2,651. * The crude death-rate was
members of the armed forces of the Crown, leaving 2,636 deaths of civilians, which if the estimated
civilian population (155,795) is taken, would give a death-rate of 16.9. The crude death-rate was
15.5 and the standardised death-rate 15.4 per 1,000 living. To obtain the corrected number of
deaths, which represents the true mortality among the population, it is necessary to add the deaths of
Kensington " residents " occurring beyond the district to the number registered as actually taking
place in the Borough, and to substract from the total thus arrived at the deaths of " non-residents "
occurring in institutions or other places in Kensington. The following figures show how the
corrected number of deaths given above has been obtained:—
Total deaths registered in the Borough 3,100
Deaths of residents beyond the Borough 493
3,593
Deaths of non-residents within the Borough 942
Corrected number of deaths belonging to the Borough 2,651
The standardised death-rate is designed to represent the mortality that would have occurred
had the age and sex distribution of the population in Kensington been the same as that of the
population of the country as a whole in the Census year 1901. The age and sex composition of
the population in Kensington is slightly in favour of a high mortality, and the effect of making
allowance for these disturbing factors is to reduce the crude death-rate of 15.5 to the standardised
rate of 15.4 already given. Where comparisons are instituted between populations with a widely
different age and sex composition the use of standardised death-rates is essential, but in Kensington
and in the Metropolis as a whole the influence of age and sex is for practical purposes the same,
and the crude death-rates shown in the following Table may be accepted as roughly representing
the relative mortality in the two areas.
Crude Death-rates per 1,000 living.
Kensington.
London.
1896-1900
16.3
18.5
1901-1905
16.4
14.7
1906-1910
13.8
14.9
1911-1915
14.6
14.0
The number of deaths and the death-rates in Kensingon and London for each quinquennial
period since 1881 will be found in Table V. Appendix, p. 53. The number of deaths occurring
in each year since the same date and the annual death-rates have been published in the Appendix
of the Annual Reports for 1908 and previous years.

* This figure includes the deaths of 15 members of the armed forces of the Crown, leaving 2,636 deaths of civilians,
which if the estimated civilian population (155,795) is taken, would give a death-rate of 16.9.