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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 Borough of Stoke
Newington is about 1.07283, and the death-rate corrected for age and
sex distribution is (13.1 x 1.07283) 14.0 per 1,000 per annum.
In arriving at this corrected death-rate, the deaths of nonparishioners
who have died in Public Institutions within the Borough
have, of course, been excluded.
The corrected death-rate of the Borough for the year in question
is, therefore, below that of the preceding year (1900) when it was
14.7.
The rate is a very satisfactory one, even for Stoke Newington.
The death-rate for the whole of London was 17.6; the death-rate
for Croydon was 12.9, and that for Brighton was 16.5.
District Mortality.—The deaths among parishioners of the
Northern Division of the Borough numbered 199 and furnished a
recorded death-rate of 11.0 per 1,000 per annum.
The deaths among parishioners of the Southern Division of the
Borough numbered 474 and furnished a rate of 14.2 per 1,000 per
annum.