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DEATHS.
DEATHS: Mortality.

The "partially corrected" rates for three of the quarters of the year (see below) were also
higher than the corresponding rates for 1912 and 1908-12, notably in the first quarter. The
same rate for the year was 13.32. Since 1891 rates for the whole year below 13.32 have been
recorded in 1906 (12.86), 1908 (13.01), 1910 (12.58), 1911 (13.22), and 1912 (12.20).

The finally corrected number of deaths for the year was 1,979, 939 of males and 1,040 of
females, the "corrected" mortality being 13.68 per 1,000 persons of all ages, 1.26 in excess of
the rate (12.44) for 1912. Last year's rate was higher than the means for the decennium (13.36)
or either quinquennium. (See Table I., Appendix.) To a certain extent the comparisons
instituted in that table are misleading, owing to the inclusion of the special transfers of deaths
in Extra-Metropolitan England and Wales since 1911. If such deaths be excluded, last year's
rate becomes 13.32, and the average for the five years 1908-12 12.95, making the rate for 1913
0.73 less than the average for 1903-07, but 0.37 above than for 1908-12. The factors producing
the increase in the rate will become apparent when the individual causes of death are discussed.
Table 22 gives the mortality rates for each sex in the Borough, and in each of the Wards, and
Table 23 the sex-age-group mortalities for the same areas. The total numbers of deaths (persons)
allocated each year since 1908 to each Ward are shown in Table II. of the Appendix, the sex-age
distribution of deaths of residents of the Borough during 1913 from selected causes of death in
Table III., and a distribution by sex and causes of deaths allocated to each Ward in Table IV.
The total death-rate (Table 22) was higher last year than the average in each of the Wards
except Lancaster Gate, East (rate, 1913—7.23: average, 7.40) and Hyde Park (rate, 1913—
9.75: average, 10.42). The mortality among males was above the average in the whole
Borough and in all the Wards save Harrow Road (rate, 1913—13.52: average, 14.72), while
that among females followed the lines of the total mortality and was below the average only in
Lancaster Gate, East (rate, 1913—5.68: average, 6.10) and Hyde Park (rate, 1913—7.65:
average, 8.86) Wards. As regards sex-age-group mortalities (Table 23) it must suffice to
. "Crude" mortality rates have been calculated on the deaths registered within the Borough.
"Partially corrected" rates, on numbers obtained by deducting the deaths of non-residents recorded within
the Borough and adding the deaths (reported weekly) of residents of the Borough occurring in other parts of the
Metropolis; and
"Corrected" rates, on the numbers obtained by adding the deaths of residents of the Borough in other parts
of England and Wales, such deaths being reported quarterly.
"Standardised" rates are "corrected" rates multiplied by "standardising factors" to make the adjustments
necessary for variations in the sex-age compositions of the populations of the various districts referred to. These
last have on former occasions been designated " corrected " r.nes, and those now called "corrected" rates, "nett."
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