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Town Hall,
Fulham, S.W. 6,
April, 1925.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Metropolitan Borough of Fulham.
Mr. Mayor, Lady and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit herewith the Annual
Report on the health and sanitary condition of the
Borough for the year 1924, this being my third Annual
Report as your Medical Officer of Health.
The year 1924 has not been marked by the noteworthy
happenings of 1923, nor can we show such
satisfactory figures so far as vital statistics are concerned.
I would, however, draw your attention to the
following matters:—
(1) The death-rate for 1924 was 11.1 per thousand,
compared with 10.5 for the previous year.
(2) The infantile mortality rate rose from 64 in
1923 to 72 in 1924. This was accompanied
by a general rise in the infantile mortality
rate throughout the country.
(3) We have to record the lowest birth-rate, 18.2,
ever recorded in the Borough with the exception
of the one war year 1918.
(4) The estimated population of 163,100 for 1924
is the largest number of persons ever estimated
to live in the Borough.
(5) The-death rate from cancer, viz., 1.35 per
thousand, is the largest ever recorded in the
history of the Borough.