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Marriages.
There were 1,496 marriages (1,422 in 1936). The marriage rate was 20.0, as
compared with 17.90, 18.19, 17.70 and 15.79 in the four preceding years.
Deaths.
The total number of deaths registered in the Borough was 1,290. This figure
includes 164 non-residents who died in the district but does not include 534 residents
who died outside the Borough. When allowance is made for inward and outward
transfers, the nett figure of 1.660 is obtained. The death-rate for the year was
11.1, compared with 11.2 in 1936, and 10.2 in 1935.
In order to make the local death-rate comparable from a mortality point of
view with the crude death-rate of the country as a whole or with the mortality of
any other area, the Registrar General supplies a factor by which the crude death-rate
should be multiplied, based upon the age and sex constitution of the population.
This adjusting factor for Woolwich is 1.06, so that the adjusted death-rate for 1937
is 11.7.
In 1937 the death-rate for England and Wales was 12.4, for London 12.5, and
the mean death-rate for 125 County Boroughs and Great Towns (including London)
was 12.5.
The seasonal mortality in the four quarters of the year was as follows:—First
quarter 13.8 ; Second quarter, 10.2; Third quarter, 8.9; Fourth quarter, 12.2.