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Marriages.
There were 847 marriages in the Borough during the year, as
compared with an average of 726 in the ten years preceding.
The marriage rate for 1913 was equal to 7'8 per 1,000 of the
estimated population and was higher than any year for the past ten
years except 1912.
The marriages were celebrated in the following places:—
540 in Churches of England.
98 in other places of worship.
209 in the Superintendent Registrar's Office.
847 Total.

The number of deaths registered within the Metropolitan Borough
of Deptford from all causes during 1913 was 1,283, equal to a deathrate
of 11.6 as compared with 1,045 deaths, and a death-rate of 9'6
during the previous year. Of this number 643 were males and 640
females. The total number of deaths belonging to Deptford is obtained
by deducting the number of deaths of non-parishioners registered in
the Borough, viz-: 181, of which number 172 occurred in the Metropolitan
Asylums Board's South Eastern Hospital, making 1,102 deaths
actually belonging to Deptford. To this number we must add 625
deaths of parishioners which occurred in public institutions outside the
Borough, making a total of 1,727, of which 903 were males and 824
females, and upon these figures the statistics are based.
The death-rate for the Borough was equal to an annual rate of
15.5 per 1,000 of the population, as compared with 13.2 for 1912,
15.8 for 1911, and 13.9 for 1910, the average for the past five years
being 14.1.