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MARRIAGES.
9. There were 1,44b marriages. The marriage-rate was
19.7 compared with 17.7.27.1 and 23.7, in the three preceding
years. The marriage-rate in England and Wales was 13.8 and
was the lowest on record.
DEATHS.
10. Table 1 gives the gross and net deaths and death
rates in 1917 and each of the past fifteen years, and shows how
the net deaths are arrived at.
11. The net deaths were 1,550, and the net death-rate 10.6
compared with 13.7 and 12.3 in the two preceding years and 12.5
the average of the ten years 1905-1914. This is the lowest rate
ever recorded.

Woolwich had the lowest death-rate of all the Metropolitan
Boroughs.
13. The following table gives the average death-rate in
each Registration District of the Borough during the past six
quinquennial periods, 1916 and 1917.
Woolwich parish had the highest death-rate and
Eltham the lowest.
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