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Death.rates
Before the adoption in 1911 of the method of transference of deaths to place of
usual residence, the death.rates in the London boroughs were affected by the number of
hospitals and institutions within their boundaries, deaths occurring in such institutions
being credited to the borough in which the institution was situated. The study of
mortality has therefore been limited to the years 1911 onwards. Some method of
standardization is necessary for comparing the London boroughs owing to the varying
sex and age constitutions of the populations. For this purpose the direct method of
standardization has been used, with the census population of London in 1931 as the
standard population. The standardized death.rates calculated on this basis are shown in
Table IV which shows that considerable variation in the death rate between London

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