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(3) DEATHS.
The nett deaths registered in the District during 1934
numbered 237, and were made up as follows: males 117,
females 120.
The crude death rate per 1,000 of the population for
the year was 10.2. The adjusted death rate per 1,000 of
the population was 9.9. (Comparability factor 0.98.)
The death rate for England and Wales was 11-8.
The crude death rate of the District is not strictly
comparable, from a mortality viewpoint, with the crude
death rate of the country as a whole or with the mortality
of any other local area. This could only be so if the
populations of all areas were similarly constituted as
regards the proportions of their sex and age group components.
It is owing to the fact that there is this
dissimilarity in the constitution of populations, i.e.,
excesses of males or females, young people or elderly
people, that renders it necessary to arrive at a factor
which, when applied to the crude death rate for the
District, modifies the latter so as to make it comparable
with the crude death rate for the country as a whole or
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