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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,
36,306 in excess of males. The deaths among the 68,347 males (1,294) were only 110
fewer than the deaths among the 104,653 females (1,404). The death-rate in the male sex was
18.9 per 1,000, as compared with a rate of 13'4 per 1,000 in the female sex. It is obvious, therefore,
that if the numbers of the sexes had been equal, the death-rate would have been higher than
the recorded rate (15.6 per 1,000). The Registrar-General in his annual summary for 1892 dealt
with the 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 1899, 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 1900, becomes,
instead of 15'6, one of about 17'2 per 1,000; and the rate for London, as a whole, about 20'02
instead of 18'8. 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 for the borough in the subjoined table.