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1.—General Statistics.
Area (acres) 1,706
Population 164,300
No. of inhabited houses (1921 census) 25,979
No. of families or separate occupiers (1921
Census) 40,436
Rateable value £1,083,798
Sum represented by penny rate £4,489
2.—Extracts from Vital Statistics of the Year.
Births— Total. Males. Females.
Legitimate 2,505 1,289 1,216 Birth-rate 16.2.
Illegitimate 165 79 86
Deaths 1,783 873 910 Death-rate 10.8.
No. of Women dying in, or in consequence of, child-birth—
From sepsis 3
„ other causes 7
Deaths of Infants under one year of age per 1,000 births—
Legitimate 63 Illegitimate 91 Total 64
Deaths from—
Measles (all ages) 47
Whooping cough (all ages) 6
Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) 30
Population.—The Registrar-General has estimated
the population of the Borough at the middle of 1926
to be 164,300. (Males, 76,073; females, 88,227.)
Marriages.—The number of marriages registered
was 1,265, and the marriage rate, i.e., the number of
persons married per 1,000 of the population, was 7.7.
In the two preceding years the marriages numbered
1,305 in 1925, and 1,288 in 1924, thus showing a
decrease of 40 for 1926.
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 2,670,
of whom 1,368 were boys and 1,302 were girls. The