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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Fulham 1927
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1927
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1.—General Statistics.
| Area (acres) | 1,706 |
| Population | 161,900 |
| No. of inhabited houses (1921 census) | 25,979 |
| No. of families or separate occupiers (1921 | |
| Census) | 40,436 |
| Rateable value | £1,088,769 |
| Sum represented by penny rate | £4,482 |
2.—Extracts from Vital Statistics for the Year.
| Births:— | Total. | Males. | Females. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Legitimate | 2,319 | 1,183 | 1,136 | Birth rate | 15.1 | |
| Illegitimate | 125 | 57 | 68 | |||
| Deaths:— | 1,833 | 945 | 888 | Death rate 1 | 11.3 | |
| No. of women dying in, or in consequence of, child-birth :— | ||||||
| From sepsis | 2 | |||||
| From other causes | ||||||
| Deaths of Infants under one year of age per 1,000 births:— | ||||||
| Legitimate 63. | Illegitimate | 112. | Total | 66 | ||
| Deaths from:— | ||||||
| Measles (all ages) | nil | |||||
| Whooping cough (all ages) | 8 | |||||
| Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) | 19 | |||||
Population.—The Registrar-General has estimated
the population of the Borough at the middle of 1927
to be 161,900. (Males, 74,970; females, 86,930).
Marriages.—The number of marriages was 1,401,
and the marriage rate, i.e., the number of marriages
per 1,000 of the population, was 8.6. In the two
preceding years the marriages numbered 1,265 in 1926,
and 1,305 in 1925, thus showing an increase of 136
for 1927.
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 2,444, of whom