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Death-Rate.
General Mortality.—The deaths of 357 Finchley residents
occurred during the year, which number includes 183
females and 174 males.
The actual number of deaths that took place in the
District was 313, but from this must be deducted 10, that is,
the number of non-residents dying in various institutions in
the District, whilst 54 must be added to account for the
deaths of parishioners in the Union Infirmary and other outlying
institutions (313-10 + 54 = 357). A list of the institutions
for which corrections have been made is set out in the
latter portion of Table A7 on page 25.
The Recorded GeneralDeath-Rate was therefore 9.83
per 1,000 of population; in 1906 the rate was 11.7; the
average for the ten years 1897—1906 being 10.8.
The death-rate in England and Wales in 1907 was 15.0
per 1,000 of the population, which was lower than the rate
in any other year on record. The rate in the 76 Great
Towns was 15.4, and in the 142 Smaller Towns 14.5.
The Corrected Death-Rate.—In comparing different
districts due allowance should be made, whenever possible,
for the effect that differences in the sex and age-distribution
of the respective populations must have on their rates of
mortality. The number by which the recorded death-rate
of any particular district should be multiplied in order to
correct for differences in the sex and age-distribution of that
population as compared with the population of England and
Wales as a whole is known as the "factor for correction."
In the case of Finchley this figure is about 1.05. In other
words, the sex and age-distribution of the population of
Finchley slightly favours a low mortality, and the death-rate
corrected for age and sex-distribution is 9.83 x 1.05 = 10.32.