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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Fulham 1922
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1922
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I give below certain general statistics for the
Borough as required by the Ministry of Health:—
1.—General Statistics.
| Area (acres) | 1,706 |
| Population (1921) | 159,400 |
| No. of inhabited houses (1921 Census) | 25,979 |
| No. of families or separate occupiers (1921 Census) | 40,436 |
| Rateable value | £980,015 |
| Sum represented by a penny rate | £3,972 |
2.—Extracts from Vital Statistics of the Year.
| Births— | Total. | Males. | Females. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Legitimate | 3,088 | 1,611 | 1,477 | Birth-rate | 20.3. | |||||
| Illegitimate | 154 | 65 | 89 | |||||||
| Deaths | 1,935 | 982 | 953 | Death-rate | 12.1. | |||||
| No. of Women dying in, or in consequence of childbirth— | ||||||||||
| From sepsis | 8 | |||||||||
| „ other causes | 4 | |||||||||
| Deaths of Infants under one year of age per 1,000 births:— | ||||||||||
| Legitimate | 67 | Illegitimate | 103 | Total | 69 | |||||
| Deaths from Measles (all ages) | 41 | |||||||||
| „ „ Whooping Cough (all ages) | 26 | |||||||||
| „ „ Diarrhœa (under 2 years of age) | 27 | |||||||||
Population.—The Registrar-General has estimated
the population of the borough at the middle of 1922
to be 159,500. (Males, 73,972; females, 85,528.)
The population at the*Census, 1921, was 157,944,
to which had to be added those persons who were on
holiday out of the borough at the time of the Census
(19th June), making a total estimated population of
159,400 for 1921. In his annual report for 1921 my
predecessor, Dr. Jackson, gave figures dealing with the
increase of population during the intercensal periods,
with overcrowding and with the numbers of families
occupying houses of different sizes, as revealed by the
Census, 1921.
Marriages.—The number of marriages registered
was 1,320, and the marriage rate, i.e., the number of
persons married per 1,000 of the population, was 8•2.