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Escess of Births over Deaths.
The natural increase of the population of the Borough by
the excess of births over deaths was 2396, compared with
2559, 2417 and 2302 in the three preceding years.
DEATHS AND DEATH-RATE.
The deaths of 2,351 persons-1,190 males and 1,164
females-were registered in Fulham during the year, but of
these 331-181 males and 150 females-were of persons not
residing in the district who died in public institutions within
the borough; while the deaths of 341 inhabitants of Flham
-197 males and 144 females-occurred outside the borough,
chiefly in various public institutions. There were, therefore,
2,364 deaths of persons belonging to Fulham-1,206 males
and 1,158 females-being in the proportion of 15.1 deaths
per 1,000 persons living, the rate for males being 16.5, and
for females 13.9.
With the exception of that for 1903 this is the lowest
death -rate recorded in Fulham.
The death-rate of the County of London for 1905 was
15.1, being 2.7 per 1,000 below the average rate for the ten
years 1895-1904.
Among the Metropolitan Boroughs the lowest death-rates
were 9.3 in Hampstead, 11.7 in Lewisham, and 12.6 in
Wandsworth, and the highest 18.7 in Bermondsey, 19.0 in
Finsbury, and 19.7 in Shoreditch.
The death-rate of England and Wales was 15.2, and
that of 76 large towns, i.e., towns which contained more than
50,000 inhabitants at the Census of 1901, 15.7.