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deaths.

* Rates, except Infantile Mortality, per 1,000 persons of estimated population. Infantile Mortality per 1,000
births registered. j Mean rates for four years 1901-04.
§ Rate after correction for births of non-parishioners in Queen Charlotte's Lying-in Hospital—1905, 131;
Mean, 135.
So far no account has been taken of the differences in the age-sex composition of the
various populations, a fact which is material to trustworthy comparison. The necessary
standard rates and correction factors have been calculated by the Registrar-General and the
Department, and the comparisons made in Table 13 show how the different Districts and
Sub-Divisions of the Borough really stand.
It will be seen that in Church Ward only was the " corrected" rate for last year (17.51)
in excess (+0.48) of the "standard" rate (17.03). The mean corrected rate (19.67) is 2.64
in excess of the standard. These figures suggest that the sanitary condition of the Ward is
not all that might be desired, but evidences of the improvement which is apparently taking
place are not lacking. In 1904 the corrected rate (19.01) was 1.98 in excess of the standard
and 1.50 higher than last year's rate. Further, the decline in last year's rate (2.16) from the
four years' mean is confirmatory evidence which conveys a sense of satisfaction. On the
other hand, the rates for the two Lancaster Gate Wards point either to some deterioration in
the sanitary condition of those Wards, or to changes in either the sex—age composition of the
population which have taken place since the last Census, or in social condition.
Judging by the results of inspection of the Wards, the sanitary condition is about the same as
before the Census. Proof of the alternative suggestions will not be forthcoming until the
next Census has been taken.