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number of inhabited buildings in London increased
between 1901 and 1911, while the population diminished.
The relative position of Fulham, compared with other
Metropolitan boroughs as regards overcrowding, was,
however, less satisfactory in 1911 than in 1901, as in
the latter year in only nine boroughs was the proportion
of overcrowding lower than in Fulham, while in 1911
fourteen boroughs had less.
MARRIAGES AND MARRIAGE-RATE.
1,382 marriages were registered during the year
compared with 1,273, 1,353 and 1387 in the preceding
three years. The marriage-rate, i.e., the number of
persons married per 1000 inhabitants, was 17.3, the
average rate for the previous ten years being 16.5.
BIRTHS AND BIRTH-RATE.
Excluding eight births among non-residents, but
including 76 children born of Fulham mothers in lying-in
institutions situate in others boroughs, the total number
of births registered in 1913 were 4,302, of whom 2,172
were boys and 2,130 girls, representing a birth-rate
of 26.9 per 1,000 inhabitants, which is the lowest
recorded in Fulham, and 1.1 below the mean rate of the
ten years 1901—1911.
The birth-rate of the County of London was 24.5, and
among the several Metropolitan boroughs the rates, after
correction by the distribution of the births in lying-in
institutions to the boroughs in which the mothers
ordinarily resided, ranged from 9.2 in the City of
London, 14.2 in Westminster, and 15.1 in Hampstead,
to 31.0 in Southwark, 31.5 in Shoreditch, and 32.0 in
Poplar.
The following table given the number of births and
birth-rates in the various wards corrected by the
distribution of the births in Fulham Infirmary to the