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Illegitimacy.
The illegitimates numbered 189 or 5 per cent. of the
total births. Of these 142 were born within, and 47
outside the borough.
Still-Born Children.
92 still-born children were buried in Fulham Cemetery,
being in the proportion of one still-born child to every
42 living.
Excess of Births over Deaths.
The natural increase of the population by the excess
of births over deaths was 1,536, compared with 2,190,
2,274 and 2,022 in the preceding three years.
DEATHS AND DEATH-RATE.
During 1915, 1,787 deaths of civilians were registered
in the borough, but of these 130 were of persons not
belonging to the borough, while G77 inhabitants of
Fulham died outside the borough, chiefly in various
public institutions. There were, therefore, including 61
deaths of Belgian refugees, 2,334 deaths of persons
having their usual residence in Fulham, representing a
death-rate of 15.2 per 1,000, which is 3.2 per 1,000 above
the average rate of the preceding five years and is the
highest recorded in Fulham since 1905.
The death-rate of the County of London in 1915 was
16.1 per 1,000. and in the metropolitan boroughs the
rates ranged from 12.4 in Hampstead to 20.2 in
Bermondsey.