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was an indication of the prevalent local industrial depression,
has ceased. In 1909, the marriage rate in London was 15.8,
and in England and Wales 14.6.
Deaths.
10. Table 1 gives the gross and net deaths and deathrates
in 1910, and each of the past ten years, and shows
how the net deaths are arrived at.
The net death-rates (which are the only ones referred to,
unless otherwise specified) are obtained by distribution of
deaths in public institutions, deaths upon which inquests were
held, and certain other deaths, to their proper locality, according
as they occur outside and 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 five and thirty, 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.
11. The net deaths were 1410, and the net death-rate
11.0. The death-rate in 1909 was 12.4. Last year had
the lowest death-rate ever recorded for the Borough.
12. By multiplying by 1.0690, the factor for age distribution,
we get the corrected death-rate, viz., 11.8, which
rate should be used in comparing Woolwich with other places
in which the death-rate is similarly corrected.