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Sanitary areas, unless some allowance is made for the relative proportions
of males and females at different ages in the districts compared.
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 containing a larger
proportion 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 deathrate
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 1.04443, and the death-rate corrected for age and sex
distribution is (13.1 x 1.04443) 13.7 per 1,000 per annum.
In arriving at this corrected death-rate, the deaths of non-residents,
who have died in Public Institutions within the Borough have, of
course, been excluded.
The rate is a very satisfactory one, even for Stoke Newington. The
death-rate for the whole of London was 16.1.
District Mortality.—The deaths among residents of the Northern
Division of the Borough numbered 196 and furnished a recorded
death-rate of 10.7 per 1,000 per annum.
The deaths among the residents of the Southern Division of the
Borough numbered 489. and furnished a recorded rate of 14.3 per
1,000 per annum.