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Town Hall,
Fulham, S.W.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the Metropolitan
Borough of Fulham.
Sir and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present to you my Annual Report
on the Vital Statistics and the conditions affecting the health
of the Borough for the year 1908.
The statistics of births, deaths and infectious diseases
relate to the registration year, a period of 53 weeks, from
December 30th, 1907, to January 2nd, 1909.
POPULATION.
The population of Fulham as enumerated at the Census
taken on April 6th, 1901, was 137,289, having increased from
113,781 during the previous five years. Estimated in the usual
way on the assumption that the rate of increase which prevailed
between 1896 and 1901 has been maintained since, the population
of the borough was in the middle of 1908, 172,562.
This is, however, certainly too high a figure, as but few new
houses have been built during the past three years, and there
are at present many empty tenements, especially in Sands
End Ward, the statistics, therefore, in this report are based
upon an estimated population of 159,860.
The following table shows the increase of the borough since
1851:—