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I give below certain general statistics for the
Borough as required by the Ministry of Health:
1.—General Statistics.
Area (acres) 1,706
Population (1923) 161,600
No. of inhabited houses (1921 census) 25,979
No. of families or separate occupiers (1921
Census) 40,436
Rateable value £983,398
Sum represented by a penny rate £4,037
2.—Extracts from Vital Statistics of the Year.
Births— Total. Males. Females.
Legitimate 2,975 1,544 1.431 Birth rate 19.3
Illegitimate 148 82 66
Deaths 1,708 871 837 Death-rate 10.5
No. of women dying in, or in consequence of, childbirth—
From sepsis 9
„ other causes 9
Deaths of Infants under one year of age per 1,000 births—
Legitimate 59 Illegitimate 155 Total 64
Deaths from Measles (all ages) 23
„ „ Whooping Cough (all ages) 14
„ „ Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) 25
Population.—The Registiar-General has estimated
the population of the borough at the middle of 1923 to
be 161,600. (Males, 74,812 ; Females, 86,788.)
Marriages.—The number of marriages registered
was 1,284, and the marriage rate, i.e., the number of
persons married per 1,000 of the population, was 7-9.
In the three preceding years the marriages numbered
1,471 ; 1,659 ; 1,320 ; thus showing a decrease of 36 for
1923.
Births.—The births corrected by the distribution of
those occurring in lying-in institutions in the borough
to the districts in which the mothers resided, and the
inclusion of children born to Fulham mothers in institutions
outside the borough, numbered 3,123, of whom
1,626 were boys and 1,497 were girls. The birth rate
was 19.3 per 1,000 inhabitants, being 1.0 per 1,000
below that of 1922. The birth rate for the whole of
London was 20.2, and for England and Wales 19.7.