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So far no allowance has been made for the influence
on the death-rate of the sex-age composition
of the population. In Table 14 the observed rates
for the districts therein mentioned have been corrected
by the use of factors which allow for the varying proportions
of persons at different ages of the two
sexes, and the fully corrected rates in the third
column, may for present purposes, be deemed
strictly comparable. Of the areas included in that
Table, Hampstead had the lowest death-rate (13.35),
the next in succession being those of St. George,
Hanover Square (15.68), Wandsworth (16.34), and
Paddington (17.39). St. George-in-the-East (28.15)
and Newington (25.08) had the highest rates for the
year.
In Tables 15 and 15a (pages 58 and 59) the deathrates
from all causes prevailing in seven age-groups of
each sex have been calculated, and set out in comparison
with the rates for each of the years 1894-98,
and with the mean rates for the period. In each
sub-division the rate at ages "0-1" was lower than
the mean, and generally lower than the corresponding
rate fur any of the years 1894-98. The decreased
mortality indicated by these figures among females
in St. John's Sub-District is very striking.
At ages "1 to 5," and "5 to 15," reductions from
the mean were recorded, some of them very considerable
; at "15 to 25 " the rates for males were above