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Death-rates vary very much in different districts according to
the natures of the populations of these districts; for instance, in a
district containing a large number of very young or very old people,
the rate would be considerably higher than in a district consisting
almost entirely of people of middle age.
There is, therefore, calculated by the Registrar General from
the Government Census returns, a corrective factor for each district
in the County of London, according to the sex and age distribution
of the population of that district; the multiplication of the recorded
death-rate of the district by this factor gives the death-rate which
would obtain in that district if the sex and age distribution of the
population of the district were in the same proportions as it is in
the country as a whole—thus eliminating the accidental differences
due to sex and age and affording a fair means of comparison, and a
truer test of the healthiness of the district. The death-rate so ascertained
is known as the corrected death-rate.
The so-called "factor for correction" for the Parish of Stoke
Newington is 1.07283, and the death-rate corrected for age and sex distribution
is 13.3 per 1,000 per annum.
In arriving at this corrected death-rate, the deaths of nonparishioners
who have died in Public Institutions within the Parish
have, of course, been excluded.
The corrected death-rate of the Parish for the year in question
is, therefore, below that of the preceding year (1899) when it was
13.7. In 1898 it was 14.6.
The rate is a very satisfactory one, even for Stoke Newington.
The death-rate for the whole of London was 18.3; the death-rate
for Croydon was 14.6, and that for Brighton was 17.8.
District Mortality.—The deaths among parishioners of the
Northern Division of the Parish numbered 112 and furnished a
recorded death-rate of 8.7 per 1,000 per annum.