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Marriages.
9. There were 945 marriages. The marriage rate was 14.6
compared with 16.4 in 1906; 407 marriages were performed in
the Registry Office, and 538 in places of worship.
The marriage-rate in London was 17.0.
deaths.
10. Table I. gives the gross and nett deaths and death-rates
in 1907, 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 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 deathrate
is 1.0690.
11. The nett deaths were 1,616, and the nett death-rate was
12.5. The death-rate in 1906 was 13.1. Last year had the
lowest death-rate recorded for the Borough.
12. By multiplying by 1.0690, the factor for age distribution,
we get the corrected death-rate, viz., 13 4, which rate should be
used in comparing Woolwich with other places. The following
table shows the nett and corrected death-rates of Woolwich, compared
with London and the adjoining Boroughs :—