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3. Extracts from Vital Statistics of the Year,
The crude birth and death rates for local areas cannot
properly be compared by reason of the fact that the populations
on which they are based may be of widely differing
sex and age constitutions. Consequently the Registrar
General provides a comparability factor for each area.
When the crude rate of any area is multiplied by this factor
an adjusted rate is produced which can be used to compare
with the adjusted rate of any other area, or with the crude
rate for England and Wales as a whole (where the comparability
factor is unity).
The comparability factors for Kingston are Births 0.96;
Deaths 0.92.
The birth and death rates in respect of the town are
shown overleaf and for the purpose of providing some comparison
the rates for England and Wales are also shown.
It will he noticed that the rates for Kingston-upon-Thames
are lower than for the country as a whole.