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Merton & Morden Urban District Council.
HEALTH REPORT FOR 1913.
TO THE CHAIRMAN AND MEMBERS OF THE
MERTON AND MORDEN URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour of submitting for the year 1913 my
Sixth Annual Report, being the sixth since Merton became an
Urban District and the first after its amalgamation with
Morden. The latter having become part of the united District
for only nine months of the year, I have thought it advisable
for the purposes of statistics to separate the two in so far as the
birth and death rates are concerned, and work on the assumption
that the rates in Morden would have been the same for the first
three months as for the rest of the year.
For the first time the death rate has been corrected in
such a manner that a somewhat fairer comparison can be made
with the rest of the country. This is due to the fact that from
the data available at the Census of 1911 a factor has been
obtained by the Registrar General which, when multiplied by
the rate obtained in the ordinary way, gives a result which
allows for differences in age and sex distribution. For
obviously a district having a large proportion of young adults
an d females shews a more favourable return than "he actualities
warrant. The factor for correction for Merton is 1.0327, and
means that in its composition it has a somewhat greater
proportion of people between the favourable ages of say 5 and
45, whose death rate is naturally lower than those above or
below those ages.