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Illegitimacy.
The illegitimates numbered 207 or 5 per cent. of the
total births. Of these 172 were born within, and 35
outside the borough.
Still-born Children.
128 still-born children were buried in Fulham Cemetery,
being in the proportion of one still-born child to every
32 living.
Excess of Births over Deaths.
The natural increase of the population by the excess
of births over deaths was 2,022 compared with 1,894,
2,190 and 2,274 in the preceding three years.
DEATHS AND DEATH-RATE.
During 1914 1,878 deaths were registered in the
borough, but of these 137 were of persons not belonging
to the borough, while 391 inhabitants of Fulham died
outside the borough chiefly in various public institutions.
There were therefore, including 10 deaths among
Belgian Refugees, 2,132 deaths of persons (1,032
males and 1,100 females), having their usual residence in
Fulham, representing a death-rate of 13.6 per 1,000
inhabitants, the rate for males being 13.8 and for
females 13.3.
The death rate of the County of London was 14.4,
and among the Metropolitan boroughs the lowest rates
were 10.5 in Hampstead, 11.0 in Wandsworth and in
Lewisham, and the highest 17.9 in Southwark, 19.1 in
Shoreditch, and 19.7 in Finsbury.
In the following table the mortality of Fulham can be
compared with that of the adjoining boroughs and of
other groups of areas.