Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1908.

  • Fulham (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
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[1909]
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Credit: Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1908. 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 1908. The statistics of births, deaths and infectious diseases relate to the registration year, a period of 53 weeks, from December 30th, 1907, to January 2nd, 1909. POPULATION. The population of Fulham as enumerated at the Census taken on April 6th, 1901, was 137,289, having increased from 113,781 during the previous five years. Estimated in the usual way on the assumption that the rate of increase which prevailed between 1896 and 1901 has been maintained since, the popu lation of the borough was in the middle of 1908, 172,562. This is, however, certainly too high a figure, as but few new houses have been built during the past three years, and there are at present many empty tenements, especially in Sands End Ward, the statistics, therefore, in this report are based upon an estimated population of 159,860. The following table shows the increase of the borough since 1851:—