Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year ending December 31st, 1905.

  • Fulham (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
[1906]
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Credit: Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year ending December 31st, 1905. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    7 The following table gives the number of births and the birth-rates in the various wards. TABLE III. Number of Births. Females. Total Births. Ward. Males. Birth-rate . 98 109 Baron's Court 207 16.1 Lillie 372 308 680 29.4 188 171 26.9 Walham 359 Margravine 415 389 804 44.4 633 Munster 623 1256 32.1 Hurlingham 112 103 215 24.0 Sands End 477 479 956 33.7 283 Town 148 135 21.5 2443 The Borough 2317 4760 30.3 The birth-rate of Margravine Ward is swollen by the births occurring in the Fulham Infirmary, but of these 145 were of the children of women who did not reside before their confinement within this ward, 87 living in other wards of the Borough, and 58 in other districts. Corrected for these the birth-rate of Margravine Ward was 36.4, and that of the Borough 29.9. Illegitimacy. The illegitimate births numbered 262 —140 males and 122 females —or 5.5 per cent. of the total births, as against 3.7 per cent. in the County of London. Still-born Children. 150 still-born children were buried in Fulham Cemetery, being in the proportion of one still-born child to every 32 living.