Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1909.

  • Fulham (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
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[1910]
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Credit: Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1909. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Town Hall, Fulham, S.W. To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the Metropolitan Borough of Fulham. Sir and Gentlemen, I have the honour to present to you my Annual Report on the vital statistics and the conditions affecting the health of the borough for the year 1909. The statistics of births, deaths, and infectious diseases re late to the fifty-two weeks ended January 1st, 1910. POPULATION. A correct estimate of the population becomes increasingly difficult, the further we get from the census year. As enumerated at the census taken on April 6th, 1901 the popu lation was 137,289, having increased from 113,781 during the previous five years, and, estimated in the usual way on the assumption that the rate of increase which prevailed between 1896 and 1901 has been maintained since, the population of the borough was in the middle of 1909, 176,406. This is unquestionably too high a figure as very few houses have been built in the last four years, and probably a more accurate calculation may be made by multiplying the number of rated houses by the average number of persons occupying each house at the census of 1901, which gives a population of 158,560, and on this the statistics in this report are based, although as there are at the present time a large number of empty tene ments, even this may be too high an estimate.