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Ward. Births. Birth Rate.
Bury Street 632 34.2
Church Street 596 35.9
Fore Street 663 36.2
DEATHS.
The deaths registered during the year were 1,050. Of these, 50
occurring in the Strand Union Workhouse and 248 among nonresidents
of the district at the Edmonton Union Workhouse, are
excluded, while 63 deaths of Edmonton residents taking place in the
Edmonton Workhouse are included in our total deaths. An
arrangement exists with Somerset House and with the District
Registrars of Tottenham and Enfield, whereby the deaths of all
residents of Edmonton occuring in London, Tottenham and Enfield,
are returned to me for inclusion in our statistics ; 93 deaths were
returned in this way during the year, making the nett total of deaths
at all ages for the district proper, 845.
The recorded death rate is therefore 15.8.
Corrected Death Rate. In order to make a fair comparison
between the death rates of one district and another, or with the
country as a whole, it is necessary to find what is known as the
corrected death rate for the districts so compared. Death rates
vary in different communities according to the composition of
their populations, those localities in which there is a large
proportion of inhabitants at the two extremes of life having,
naturally, a greater death rate than is the case in districts
where persons of the intermediate ages form the bulk of the
population. In order to make an accurate allowance for differences
of this kind, a corrective factor is found for each district, which
varies with the age and sex distribution of its inhabitants as
revealed in the census returns, and when the recorded death rate is
multiplied by this figure, the result is the death.rate that would
obtain if the inhabitants were distributed in the same proportion as
regards age and sex as are the inhabitants of the country generally.