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Town Hall,
Fulham.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Metropolitan Borough of Fulham.
Sir and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present to you my 19th Annual
Report on the vital statistics and the conditions affecting
the health of the Borough for the year 1911.
POPULATION.
The population of Fulham as enumerated at the
Census taken on April 2nd, 1911, was 153,284, showing
an increase in the ten years of 15,995 or 11.7 per cent,
which was exceeded in only two of the Metropolitan
boroughs, viz., Wandsworth with 34.2 per cent. and
Lewisham with 26.2 per cent. increase, while in the
administrative County of London the population was
less by 13,300 than in 1901. The natural increase of
the population of Fulham during the same period by
the excess of births over deaths was 24,118, a loss by an
excess of removals over incomers being recorded for the
first time during an intercensal period.
The Census returns show that the population, as
calculated in the previous report upon the number of
rated houses, was overestimated to the extent of about
3.4 per cent., while the Registrar-General's estimate of
the population in the middle of 1911, viz. 186,190, which
was based upon the assumption that the rate of increase
prevailing in the intercensal period of 1896-1901 had
been maintained, was 21 per cent. too high.