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The recorded general death-rate is therefore 10.9. This ordinary
death-rate, however, cannot be taken as a true index of the healthiness
of the Borough, nor can it be justly compared with the rates of
other 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
nature 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 largel
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
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 1.0438, and the death-rate corrected for age and sex
distribution is 10.9 x1.0438=11.4 per 1,000 per annum.
In arriving at this corrected death-rate, the deaths of nonresidents,
who have died in Public Institutions within the Borough
have, of course, been excluded.
The rate is the lowest recorded since the formation of the
Borough. The death-rate for the whole of London was 13.3,