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Town Hall,
Fulham, S.W.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Metropolitan Borough of Fulham.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit to you my twenty-fourth
Annual Report on the vital statistics and the conditions
affecting the health of the borough during the year 1915.
The statistics of births, deaths and infectious diseases
relate to the fifty-two weeks ended January 1st, 1916.
POPULATION.
The Registrar General has informed Medical Officers
of Health that he proposes to exclude from his
returns for local areas the deaths of all members of the
armed forces of this and other countries and to calculate
the death-rates on the estimated civil population. In
the following memorandum the Registrar General has
dealt with the method of framing these estimates and
the reasons for its adoption
Estimate of Civil Population, 1915.
The war has made it impossible to adhere to the
methods of estimation of local and national populations
hitherto in use. Men of military age have
been largely drafted to military training centres or
sent abroad with the army, and the remainder of the