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tion of the population. Correction for these data involves
addition to, or subtraction from, the "recorded death-rate,"
as compared with the " standard death-rate." The necessity
for such correction in this parish is obvious, having regard
to the great excess of females in the population, and to
the lower death-rate in the female sex as compared with
the rate in the male sex. As has already been stated,
females are, approximately, 36,500 in excess of males,
the relative numbers of the two sexes being, males
67,150, and females 103,550. The deaths among the 67,150
males (1,335) were three in excess of the deaths among
the 103,550 females (1,332). The death-rate in the male sex
was, in round numbers, 20 per 1,000, as compared with a rate
of 13 per 1,000 in the female sex. It must be obvious, therefore,
that if the numbers of the sexes had been equal, the deathrate
would have been somewhat higher than the recorded rate
of 15.6 per 1,000. The Registrar-General in his annual
summary for 1892 dealt with this question, and gave the
"factor for correction for sex and age distribution" in the
thirty-three great towns of England and Wales; and in his
annual report for 1893, the Medical Officer of Health to the
County Council gave the factor for each of the sanitary
districts of London. Corrected after the method indicated,
the death-rate of Kensington in 1897 becomes (instead of 15.6
per 1,000) one of about 17.2 per 1,000; and the rate for
London, as a whole, about 19.4 instead of 18.2. The true
death-rate is that which shows the mortality per 1,000 living
of each sex at different age-periods, and this is shown in the
table at page 19.