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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, which varies with 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 deatli-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 12.3 x 1.0438 = 12.8 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 recorded rate is below that for the preceding year, when
it was 13.1. The death-rate for the whole of London was 14.4.
District Mortality.—The deaths among residents of the
Northern Division of the Borough numbered 179, and furnished
a recorded death-rate of 10.5 per 1,000 per annum.
The deaths among the residents of the Southern Division of
the Borough numbered 442, and furnished a recorded death-rate
of 13.2 per 1,000 per annum.