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Stoke Newington 1912
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stoke Newington, The Metropolitan Borough]
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| Year. | General Death-rate. | Rate for London generally. | Rale for England and Wales. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1901 | 13.1 | 17.6 | 16.0 |
| 1902 | 13. 3 | 17.2 | 16.3 |
| 1903 | 12.6 | 15.2 | 15.4 |
| 1904 | 13.4 | 16.1 | 16.2 |
| 1905 | 13.0 | 15.1 | 15.2 |
| 1906 | 12.0 | 15.7 | 15.4 |
| 1907 | 11.8 | 14.6 | 15.0 |
| 1908 | 12.9 | 13.8 | 14.7 |
| 1909 | 11.7 | 14.0 | 14.5 |
| 1910 | 11.8 | 12.7 | 13.4 |
| 1911 | 12.5 | 15.0 | 14.6 |
| 1912 | 11.6 | 13.6 | 13.3 |
The recorded general death-rate is therefore 11.6, as against
12.5 for the preceding year. 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 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, which varies with the sex and age
distribution of the population of that district; the multiplication