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Church End, Kvensal Green, and South Kilburn
(Chart No. II.) ate The Wards in which the male and
female populations are most nearly equal; Harlesden
and Mid Kilburn coming next; while North Kilburn
and Willesden Green exhibit a great disproportion due
largely to excess of females in early adult and middle
life. As I have already suggested differences in the
social conditions of the Wards are probably accountable
for these variations. The Wards possessing the
greatest excess of females over males, especially at
the age periods of lowest mortality, should cceteris
paribus have the lowest death rates, since in these
Wards there is an accumulation of persons of an age
and sex when they are least prone to illness and
death.
But more important than differences of sex distribution
are those of the age constitution of the districts
compared, and in Chart III. is seen the distribution
of the population living at each decennium in the
different wards of the Districts. The varied character
of the age constitution of each of the wards becomes
apparent when the relative length of the columns
showing the number of persons living at the age
period which each column represents, is compared.