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and that other and possibly preventable conditions are
responsible for the excess which one district exhibits
over another. The returns of the recent census have
furnished the material for an enquiry into the age and
sex distribution of the population of Willesden and are
sufficiently recent to justify some attempt at presenting
them so that their significance shall be understood.
Chart No. I. shows the distribution in quinquennia of
males and females for the whole of Willesden.
It will be observed that while in the first quinquennium
males are slightly in excess of females, in
every succeeding age period females are numerically
predominant. This is notably the case between the
ages of 15 and 35, and consideration of the corresponding
charts for the different wards suggests that
this is very largely due to the influx of domestic
servants.
The rise in the excess of females at the age
periods over 50 is probably due in great measure to
their lower death rate, for although boys start with
a numerical lead, they quickly lose it owing to their
increased rate of mortality which is greater than that
of females at almost every age period of life.