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Deaths.
The deaths during 1934, after deducting those registered in
Hampstead who were non-resident persons and adding the deaths of
Hampstead residents who died outside the Borough, were 1,014 as
compared with 994 in the preceding year. This represents a Crude
Death Rate of 113 per 1,000 of the population.
If the population of all areas were similarly constituted as
regards the proportions of their sex and age group components, their
Crude Death Rates (deaths per 1,000 population) could be accepted as
valid comparative measures of the mortalities experienced by the
several populations.
In practice, however, populations are not thus similarly constituted,
and their Crude Death Rates fail as true comparative
mortality indexes in that their variations are not due to mortality alone,
but arise also from differences in their population constitution, the
two elements being combined in indistinguishable proportions.
The Registrar General has therefore prepared Comparability
Factors for adjusting local death rates. When the Crude Death Rate
of an Area is multiplied by the Factor appropriate to that area, an
"Adjusted Death Rate" is obtained which is comparable, from a
mortality point of view, with the Crude Death Rate of the country
as a whole, or with the mortality of any other local area, the Crude
Death Rate of which has been similarly modified. The Crude Death
Rate for Hampstead is 11.3 which, when multiplied by the local
Comparability Factor of 0.94 gives the Adjusted Death Rate of 10.6.
The Death Rates for London and for England and Wales were
11.9 and 11.8 respectively.
Death Rate of Infants under one year of age :—
All infants per 1,000 live births 53
Legitimate infants per 1,000 legitimate live births 42
Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate live births 165
Deaths from Measles (all ages) 9
„ Whooping Cough (all ages) 3
„ Diarrhœa (under 2 years of age) 8