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deaths.
10. Table 1 gives tlie gross and nett deaths and death-rates
in 1906, 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 deaths on which inquests were held, 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 necssary 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 deathrate
is 10690.
11. The nett deaths were 1666, and the nett death-rate was
131. The death-rate in 1905 was 12'7, but with that exception,
last year had the lowest death-rate recorded for the Borough.

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