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It will be seen from the foregoing table (comparing the corrected death-rates) that the death-rate
(all causes) was, both in the period 1901-5 and the year 1906, highest in Finsbury (21.7 and 21.4 respectively
per 1,000 persons living), and lowest in Hampstead (11.5 and 10'6 respectively, per 1,000 persons living).
For the purposes of the calculation of the death-rates in the above table the populations of the
several metropolitan boroughs have been estimated on the assumption that the rate of increase in the
last intercensal period has been since maintained. The correctness of this assumption is open to
doubt, especially in view of the fact that five years have elapsed since the census of 1901, and the estimate
of the populations used needs to be checked by figures obtained on some other assumption. Such figures
are furnished by the populations calculation by the Registrar General for the purposes of the Equalisation
of Rates Act, these populations being calculated from the number of rated houses in each borough. The
following table shows the populations estimated by the two methods referred to and the resulting deathrates
for the year 1906. It will be noted that the death-rate of the County of London remains practically
the same whether one or the other population be adopted.

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