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Fulham 1899

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year ending December 30th, 1899

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of London was 166 per 1,000, the rates in the various sanitary districts
ranging from 103 in Stoke Newington, 112 in St. Giles, and 124 in
St. Marylebone, to 207 in Westminster, 216 in Limehouse and 226
in Holborn.
In the 32 large provincial towns the rate was 181 per 1,000, the
lowest proportions being 152 in Huddersfield, 154 in Croydon, and
159 in Halifax; the highest proportions were 210 in Nottingham,
255 in Preston, and 269 in Burnley.
DEATHS OF ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN.
85 of the children who died before attaining the age of one year
were illegitimate, the mortality among them being in the proportion
of 445 deaths to 1,000 births, or morel than twice as heavy as that
of children born in wedlock.
The following Table gives the infantile mortality in Fulham,
London, and the adjoining parishes for the preceding six years: —

Table: Deaths under One Year per 1,000 Births.

Deaths under One Year per 1,000 Births.

Mean for 5 years–
1893.1894.1895.1896.1897.1898.93-981899.
Fulham177149187176161167169189
Hammersmith160147182179171183170183
Kensington169173175178166181174180
Chelsea158131155169161176158164
London164143165161159166160166

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Between the ages of 1 and 5 years 344 deaths were registered,
so that the total number of deaths under 5 years numbered 1,206 or
48.3 per cent, of the deaths at all ages.
These deaths were equal to an annual rate of 65.6 per 1,000 of
the population estimated to be living at that age, the corresponding
rate for the Metropolis being 61.2.
During the previous 6 years the mean death-rate of children
under 5 years has been in Fulham 62.2, and in London 68.7.