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This increase is partly due to the fact that there are 3 or 4
houses in the district which are being used for lying-in purposes,
and for some reason or other the mother gives the place of birth
as her usual residence. The majority of these births are illegitimate
ones, and do not really belong to the district, but as the mother
chooses to utilise the place of birth as her usual place of residence,
the births have to be accepted as belonging to Acton.
The births registered in the district had the following Ward
distribution:—
North-East. North-West. South-East South-West.
334 231 359 562

508 deaths were registered in the district, of these 12 belonged
to other districts, and are not included in the returns.
197 deaths of "residents" occurred outside the district. The
total number of deaths belonging to the district is 693, which
corresponds to a death-rate of 11.5 per 1,000 inhabitants.
The rate 11.5 per 1,000 is the "crude death-rate," and makes
no allowance for the inequalities of age and sex distribution in the
district as compared with England and Wales. In former Reports
it has been explained that the Registrar-General published a table
of factors for all the large towns, and that the "factor for correction
"for Acton is 1.04640. If the crude death-rate of 11.5 be
multiplied by this factor for correction, the result obtained—12.28
—is the " corrected death-rate " for the district in 1913.