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EXCESS OF BIRTHS OVER DEATHS
The natural increase of the population by excess of births over deaths
was 2,076, compared with 1,866, 1,735, 2 ,025 in the three preceding
years.
ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN.
The births of illegitimate children numbered 167, 89 males and 78
females, forming 4.0 per cent. of the total births.
STILL-BORN CHILDREN
165 still-born children were buried in Fulham Cemetery, being in the
proportion of one still-born child to every 25 births. Of these 137 were
buried on the production of the certificate of a registered Medical Practitioner,
and 28 on a declaration being made pursuant to 37 and 38, Vict,
cap. 88, Sec. 18, by the father or mother of the child, or in default of these
by the occupier of the house in which the birth took place, or a person who
was present at the birth.
Deaths and Death Rate
The deaths of 2,240 persons—l,l45 males and 1,095 females —
were registered in Fulham during the year, but of these 419, 215 males
and 204 females, were of persons not resident in the district, who died
in institutions situated within the parish, while the deaths of 209 persons,
133 males and 76 females belonging to Fulham occurred in institutions
situated outside the parish. There were, therefore, 2,030 deaths of
parishioners of Fulham, the mortality being at the rate of 16.9 per 1,000
living, which is the lowest death rate yet recorded in Fulham. The rate in
the male sex was 18.7, and in the female 15.3. The death-rate of the
County of London was 17.7, and of the three adjoining parishes that of
Kensington was 15.7, of Hammersmith 16.7, and of Chelsea 17.7.
The lowest death rates in the 43 sanitary districts into which the
Metropolis is divided were 11.8 in Hampstead, 12.8 in Lewisham, and
13.2 in St. George, Hanover Square, and the highest rates were 25.1 in
Limehouse, 25.7 in St. Luke's, and 26.4 in St. George's-in-the-East.
Of the 33 large towns in England and Wales the lowest rates were
those of Croydon 13.1, Cardiff 14.9, Brighton 15.1 and West Ham 15.7, and
the highest those of Wolverhampton 22.5, Manchester 23.1, Salford 23.9,
and Liverpool and Preston, 24.4.