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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 1896. The
statistics of Marriages, Births, Deaths, and Infectious Diseases relate to the
53 weeks ending January 2nd, 1897.
Population.
Under the provisions of the Equalisation of Rates Act a Census of the
sanitary districts of the Metropolis was taken on March 29th, 1896, and the
returns show that the population of Fulham on that day was 113,781, an
increase of 22,141 compared with the enumerated total of 91,640 in 1891,
the increase being greater than in any sanitary district in the Metropolis
excepting in Wandsworth. Large, however, as has been the increase, it is
relatively less than that which took place between 1881 and 1891, in which
period the population increased from 42,900 to 91,640; for had this rate of
increase been maintained during the past five years the population of
Fulham would have numbered 123,168.
SEX DISTRIBUTION.
There were 60,031 females and 53,950 males, an excess of 6,281
females, being in the proportion of 100 females to 89.7 males. At the
previous Census the proportion was 100 females to 87.6 males. The
proportion varied considerably in the several wards—thus, in Barons Court
Ward there were 100 females to every 64 males, while in Margravine Ward
there were 95-3 females to every 100 males, the former ward being inhabited
largely by the servant-keeping class.