Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1925.

  • Fulham (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
[1926]
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Credit: Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1925. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    8 1.—General Statistics. Area (acres) 1,706 Population 163.700 No. of inhabited houses (1921 Census) 25,979 No. of families or separate occupiers (1921 Census) 40,436 Rateable value £995,140 Sum represented by penny rate £4,045 2.—Extracts from Vital Statistics of the Year. Births— Total. Males. Females. Legitimate Illegitimate 2,628 143 1,366 72 1,262 71 Birth-rate 16.9. Deaths 1,754 866 888 Death-rate 10.7. No. of Women dying in, or in consequence of, child-birth— From sepsis 4 „ other causes 7 Deaths of infants under one year of age per 1,000 births:— Legitimate 77 Illegitimate 56 Total 76 Deaths from— Measles (all ages) 2 Whooping cough (all ages) 35 Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) 37 Population.—The Registrar-General has estimated the population of the Borough at the middle of 1925 to be 163,700. (Males, 75,791 ; females, 87,909). Marriages.—The number of marriages registered was 1,305, and the marriage rate, i.e., the number of persons married per 1,000 of the population was 7.9. In the two preceding years the marriages numbered 1,288 in 1924 and 1,284 in 1923, thus showing an increase of 17 for 1925. Births.—The births corrected by the distribution of those occurring in lying-in institutions in the Borough to the districts in which the mothers resided, and the inclusion of children born to Fulham mothers in institutions outside the Borough, numbered 2,771, of whom 1,438 were boys and 1,333 were girls. The