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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 1909.
The statistics of births, deaths, and infectious diseases relate
to the fifty-two weeks ended January 1st, 1910.
POPULATION.
A correct estimate of the population becomes increasingly
difficult, the further we get from the census year. As
enumerated at the census taken on April 6th, 1901 the population
was 137,289, having increased from 113,781 during the
previous five years, and, 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 1909, 176,406. This is
unquestionably too high a figure as very few houses have been
built in the last four years, and probably a more accurate
calculation may be made by multiplying the number of rated
houses by the average number of persons occupying each house
at the census of 1901, which gives a population of 158,560,
and on this the statistics in this report are based, although as
there are at the present time a large number of empty tenements,
even this may be too high an estimate.