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It will thus be seen that the death-rates of different districts
cannot be compared with one another or with the country at large,
unless they are reduced to a common standard. 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 Parish of Stoke
Newington is 1.07283, and the death-rate corrected forage and sex distribution
is 14.6 per 1,000 per annum.
In arriving at this corrected death-rate, the deaths (36) of
non-parishioners who have died in Public Institutions within the
Parish have, of course, been excluded.
The corrected death-rate of the Parish for the year in question
is, therefore, below that of the preceding year (1897), when it was
15.0. In 1896 it was 13.3.
The rate is a very satisfactory one, even for Stoke Newington,
when it is borne in mind that over practically the whole of England
and Wales the death-rates for the year 1898 are higher than those
of the preceding year.
District Mortality.—The deaths among parishioners of the
Northern Division of the Parish numbered 128, and furnished a
recorded death-rate of 10.1 per 1,000 per annum.
The deaths among parishioners of the Southern Division of the
Parish numbered 338, and furnished a rate of 15.6 per 1,000 per
annum.