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held, and certain other deaths, 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 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 1,420, and the net death-rate
11.5, compared with 11.4 and 12.8 in the two preceding years.
12. By multiplying by 1.0690, the factor for age distribution,
we get the corrected death-rate, viz.: 12.3, which
rate should be used in comparing Woolwich with other places
in which the death-rate is similarly corrected.