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There is, therefore, calculated hv 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 fairer 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 12.5× 1.0438= 13.0 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 somewhat higher than those recorded for the previous
two years. The death-rate for the whole of London was 15.0.
District Mortality.- The deaths among residents of the Northern
Division of the Borough numbered 161 and furnished a recorded
death-rate of 9.4 per 1,000 per annum.
The deaths among the residents of the Southern Division of the
Borough nurrtbered 473, and furnished a recorded death-rate of
14.1 per 1,000 per annum.