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Ful 2
Town Hall,
Fulham, S.W.
To the Vestry of the Parish of Fulham,
Gentlemen,
I beg to submit to you my Annual Report on the
vital statistics and the conditions affecting the health of the
district for the year 1894. The statistics of Marriages,
Births and Deaths relate to the fifty-two weeks ending
December 29th, 1894.
POPULATION.
The population of Fulham as enumerated at the Census
taken in April, 1891, was 91,640, having increased from
42,900 during the preceding ten years. The population in
the middle of 1894, as calculated in the usual manner on the
hypothesis that the rates of increase which prevailed between
1881 and 1891 have been maintained since, was 110,993,
but there is reason to believe that this figure is somewhat too
high and a more accurate estimate can probably be made
from the number of inhabited houses on the rate-books, in the
same way as the population in April last was estimated for
the purposes of the Equalisation of Rates Act, and, calculated
thus, the population was, at the end of June, 1894, 107,880,
and on this figure the statistics in this report are based.
As an accurate estimate of the population is the first
essential in vital statistics, it is satisfactory to know that
under the Equalisation of Rates Act a census will be taken
for the purpose of ascertaining the number of persons
present within each parish in the administrative county of
London on the night of Sunday, March 29th, 1896.