Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1911.

  • Fulham (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
[1912]
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Credit: Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1911. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    9 MARRIAGES AND MARRIAGE-RATE. The number of marriages registered during the year was 1,353, compared with 1,205, 1,182 and 1,273 in the three preceding years. The marriage-rate i.e., the number of persons married per 1,000 inhabitants was 17.7, the average rate for the previous ten years being 16.0. BIRTHS AND BIRTH-RATE. Excluding 5 births among non-residents and in cluding 115 children born of Fulham mothers in lying-in institutions situate in other boroughs, the total number of births registered in 1911 was 4,122, of whom 2,076 were boys and 2,046 girls, representing a birth-rate of 26.9 per 1,000, which is the lowest yet recorded in Fulham and 3.9 per 1,000 below the mean of the pre ceding ten years. The birth-rate of the County of London was 24.8 per 1000 and among the several Metropolitan boroughs the rates, after correction by the distribution of the births in lying-in institutions to the boroughs in which the mothers ordinarily resided, ranged from 11.6 in the City of Lon don and 14.9 in Hampstead to 31.5 in Bethnal Green and 31.9 in Shoreditch. The following table gives the number of births and the birth-rate in the various wards, corrected by the distribution of the births in Fulham Infirmary and the inclusion of those occurring in outside Maternity Institutions:—