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Marriages.
8. There were 910 marriages compared with 937 in the
previous year. The marriage rate was 14.5 compared with
15.2 in 1903, and with 17.4 in London in the same year.
387 Marriages were performed in the Registry Office and
523 in places of worship.
Deaths.
9. Table 1 gives the gross and nett deaths and death rates
in 1904, and each of the past ten years, and shows how
the nett deaths are arrived at. The nett death rates (which
are the only ones referred to unless otherwise specified) are
obtained by distribution of deaths in public institutions, and by
accident to their proper locality, according as they occur outside
or inside the Borough.
But in order to institute a fair comparison between one
district and another, it is necessary to further correct the death
rate for sex and age distribution, for it is obvious that a population
containing a large number of young persons between
the ages of 5 and 30, when the death rate is very low, should
have a lower death rate than one containing an excess of aged
persons. The factor for the correction of the Woolwich death
rate is 1.0690.
10. The death rate was 14.0 compared with 14.6 and 13.3
in the two previous years, and with 16'6, the average of the
ten preceding years. With the exception of 1903, the death
rate was lower than is recorded in any year before. By the
use of the factor given above, we find that the death rate when
corrected for sex and age distribution is 15.0
The death rate in the County of London was 16.6 The
factor for correction of the London death rate is 1.05107, and
by the use of this we get the corrected London death rate,
viz. 17.5.