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Loss of Expected Years of Life.
In a recent article, Dr.Logan and Dr.Benjamin,
statisticians attached to the Registrar-General's Office,
suggested that it would be of value to -extend the study of
mortality changes by considering the years of expected life
lost by each death, rather than by simply counting the
number of people who die.
Subsequently, the Registrar-General published for
England and Wales a table expressing, mortality in terms of
years of life lost, obtained from analysing death rates from
all causes and from particular causes at various ages.
Statistics have been calculated on these lines for Stepney's
deaths and are given below, in comparison with those for
England and Wales.
Since local rates, when compared with national rates,
need to be adjusted by a weighting factor which allows for
any differences in population age-structures, the figures
given relate to the year 1953? as the standard weights for
1954 are not yet available.