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CORRECTED DEATH-RATE.
In common with most new and rapidly growing districts
East Ham contains an excess of young people, and therefore
should have a lower death-rate than towns where this condition
does not obtain. The death-rate for females is also lower than
that of males, and therefore districts where women preponderate
have lower death-rates. It is p ssible to make a fairly accurate
correction for this varying age and sex distribution, and on the
basis of the Census of 1901, the "factor for correction," as it is
termed, for East Ham is 1.067. If the nett death-rate is
multiplied by this, the result gives the rate which would
probably have occurred had the age and sex distribution been
the same as that of England and Wales as a whole. Corrected
in this way the death-rate of East Ham for 1909 becomes 10.0
per 1,000 of population.

UNCERTIFIED DEATHS.
Two were recorded during the year as compared with nil
for 1908.
The following causes of death were stated by the
Registrars:—
Heart failure and goitre ... Female 51 years.
Pulmonary Tuberculosis Male 33 ,,