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The Registrar General supplies a comparability factor and the
crude death rate multiplied by this figure can then be compared
with the crude death rate of the county as a whole or with the
mortality of any other local areas.
The corrected death rate obtained by the above is 11.3 as
compared with 11.8 for England and Wales and 11.9 for London.
The total number of deaths received weekly from the local
Registrar does not always tally with the number received at the
end of the year from the Registrar-General. This is due to the
fact that the statistical year of the Registrar-General may not
begin at the first day of the week. The number of deaths, therefore,
in the following table, is as near to the Registrar-General's
figure as I am able to make it.
The deaths occurred in persons of the following ages:—
20 under 1 year of age.
7 between 1 and 5 years of age.
9 „ 5 „ 15 „
9 „ 15 „ 25
37 ,, 25 ,, 45 ,,
158 „ 45 „ 65
180 „ 65 „ 80
93 over 80 years of age.
It will be noticed that no fewer than 273 persons died over
the age of 65, i.e., more than half the total deaths, while 93 were
deaths of people over 80 years of age.