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compared with 1,014 in the preceding year. This represents a Crude
Death Rate of 112 per 1,000 of the population.
Since the populations of all areas are not similarly constituted as
regards the proportions of their sex and age group components, their
Crude Death Rates (deaths per 1,000 population) cannot be accepted
as valid comparative measures of the mortalities experienced by the
several populations, and 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 prepared Comparability Factors for
adjusting local death rates, and when the Crude Death Rate of an
Area is multiplied by the appropriate Factor, an "Adjusted Death
Rate" is obtained which is comparable with the Crude Death Rate of
the country as a whole, or with the "Adjusted Death Rate" of any
other area. The Crude Death Rate for Hampstead is 11.2 which,
when multiplied by the local Comparability Factor of 0.94, gives the
Adjusted Death Rate of 10.5.
The Death Rates for London and for England and Wales were
11.4 and 11.7 respectively.
Death Rate of Infants under one year of age:—
All infants per 1,000 live births 49
Legitimate infants per 1,000 legitimate live births 36
Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate live births 182
Deaths from Measles (all ages) —
„ Whooping Cough (all ages) 1
„ Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) 7
Meteorology.
Through the kindness of E. L. Hawke, Esq., M.A., F.R.A.S.,
F.R.Met.S., Secretary of the Royal Meterological Society and Hon.
Meteorologist to the Hampstead Scientific Society, I am able to submit
his report on meteorology in Hampstead during the year 1935, which
is based on records kept at that Society's Observatory on the top of
Hampstead Heath adjoining the White Stone Pond:—
"An outstanding feature of the weather during 1935 was its
predominant warmth: in nine of the twelve months the mean