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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 population of London is taken as the
standard, and factors are calculated which when multiplied
by the death-rate of any Metropolitan Borough, give the
death-rate that Borough would have if the age distribution
of its population were the same as in the Metropolis. The,
factor for the correction of the Woolwich death-rate is 1-0249.
11. The net deaths were 1,580, and the net death-rate
12.3, compared with 12.8 and 11 5 in the two preceding
years, and 12.7 the average of the ten preceding years.
12. By multiplying by 1.0249, the factor for age distribution,
we get the corrected death-rate, viz., 12.6, which
rate should be used in comparing Woolwich with other places
in which the death-rate is similarly corrected. The following