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96
Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.
In order to make this death-rate comparable with
the death-rate of London, and of England and Wales, it
must be corrected for age and sex distribution; this
factor for Wandsworth is 1.068, so that the death-rate
would then be 17.42 per 1,000.
In the metropolis, the death-rate for the year was
18.3 per 1,000 or 2 per 1,000 above the rate for Wandsworth.
Table III. shows the total mortality for the year
arranged in accordance with the system adopted by the
Registrar General. It shows the total number in each
group, together with the age at death at eight periods,
and the sex and social position of the deceased.
Tables A and B which follow are inserted by direction
of the Local Government Board.
In Table III. the causes of death are classified
under six main groups, and the total number of deaths
as well as the percentage of each to total deaths are
shown in the following table:—
1. Zymotic 194 deaths or 20.20 per cent. of total deaths.
2. Constitutional 169 „ 17.58 „ „ „
3. Local 438 ,, 45.58 ,, ,, ,,
4. Developmental131 „ 13.63 „ „ „
5. Violence 29 „ 3.01 „ „ „
6. Ill-defined 0 „ .0 „ „ „