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The recorded general death.rate is therefore 14.6, as against
12.3 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 population 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 'he 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 death.rate:
The so.called " factor for correction " for the Borough of
Stoke Newington is 0.9512, and the death.rate corrected for age
and sex distribution is 14.6 x 0.9512 = 13.9 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 above that for the preceding year, when
it was 12.3. This increase is almost entirely due to a greater
number of deaths from Diseases of the Lungs, Measles, and
Influenza. 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 232, and furnished
a recorded death.rate of 13.6 per 1,000 per annum.
The deaths among the residents of the Southern Division of
the Borough numbered 507, and furnished a recorded death.rate
of 15.1 per 1,000 per annum.