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DEATHS.
The population of the Borough, as determined at the census, included a number of persons
who were non-residents, and did not take account of those residents who were away from their
homes on the night of the census. The latter would include residents travelling, away on
holiday, in hospitals or other institutions. Manifestly in calculating standard death-rates the
included non-residents ought to be excluded from the calculations, and the excluded residents,
included. In technical phraseology, the standard death-rate should be based on the population
de jure and not on that de facto. It has been ascertained that the Registrar-General when
calculating the published standardising factors did not use the census populations, but certain
estimates (or approximations) to represent the populations de jure. When the Department came
to calculate standardising factors for the Wards of the Borough, it was found necessary to
re-determine the factor for the Borough, and to preserve the comparability of the standardised
rates, similar re-calculations were made for all the districts circumjacent to the Borough. The
results are given in the first section of Table 26.
The standardised rates observed in the Wards in 1913 ranged from 8*38 per 1,000 in
Lancaster Gate, East, to 18 68 in Church Ward. The order of the Wards according to the
magnitudes of the mortality rates has not been the same in each of the three years covered by
the table, but one or other of the Lancaster Gate Wards has been at one end of the scale each
year and Church Ward at the other. The following statement shows how the recorded numbers
of deaths in the Wards have differed from the numbers obtained from the application of the
average mortality rates (sex-age-group) of England and Wales. The differences may be said
to represent the results of the influences of environment—including therein sanitary, social, and
economic factors—on mortality.

Factors for " all causes " calculated in General Register Office, those for pulmonary tuberculosis and cancel
by the Medical Officer of Health of the County.