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Illegitimacy.
The illegitimates numbered 227, or 5.3 per cent. of the
total births. Of the births registered in the borough, 198 or
4.7 per cent. were illegitimate as were 29 or 25.4 per cent. of
those born in outside institutions.
Still-born Children.
Two hundred and twenty-one still-born children were buried
in Fulham Cemetery, being in the proportion of one still-born
child to every nineteen living.
Excess of Births over Deaths.
The natural increase of the population of the borough by
the excess of births over deaths was 2,191, compared with
2,553, 2,422, and 2,636 in the three preceding years.
DEATHS AND DEATH-RATE.
The deaths of 1,940 persons, 979 males and 961 females,
were registered in Fulham during 1909, but of these 154,
100 males and 54 females, were of persons not belonging to the
borough, who died within it, while the deaths of 329 residents
in Fulham, 187 males and 142 females, occurred outside the
borough, chiefly in various public institutions. There were,
therefore, 2,115 deaths of persons belonging to Fulham, 1,066
males and 1,049 females, representing an annual rate of 13.34
per 1,000 of the estimated population, which is the same
as that for 1908, and 2.2 per 1,000 below the average rate
of the preceding ten years.
The death-rate of males was 14.2 and of females 12.5,
assuming the sex constitution of the population to be the same
as in 1901.
The death-rate of the County of London was 14.0 per 1,000,
and among the several boroughs the lowest death-rates were
8.9 in Hampstead, 10.3 in Lewisham, and 11.3 in Stoke
Newington, while the highest were 19.0 in Shoreditch, 19.2 in
Finsbury, and 20.3 in the City of London.
The death-rate of England and Wales in 1909 was 14.5,
and that of the seventy-five large provincial towns 14.9.