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Fulham comprises an area of 1761 statute acres, St. Paul's 2102,
and St. Peter's 185. On the 3rd of last April, when the census
was taken, the population of Fulham was found to be 42,895,
that of St. Peter's and St. Paul's together (i.e., Hammersmith
parish) 71,916. On the 31st of last December there were about
16,548 inhabited houses in the district against 16,063 in the
previous year. On the estimated population there was, at the
end of last year, an average of 6 8 persons to each house. Of the
16,548 inhabited houses in the district last year, there were 11,000
in the parish of Hammersmith and 5548 in the parish of Fulham,
against 10,910 in the parish of Hammersmith and 5153 in the
parish of Fulham at the end of the previous year. There
was therefore an increase last year of 485 inhabited houses
in the whole district. There was an increase of 395 in the
parish of Fulham ; 90 in the parish of Hammersmith. On the
estimated population of this district there was an average of
26 8 persons to an acre at the end of last year, while there was
an average of 48.6 persons per acre in the whole of London.
Extensive building operations are now being carried on in many
portions of the district. According to the census return just
issued there were 1061 houses in process of construction on the
3rd of last April.
The number of deaths registered in this district last year was
2217, males 1086, females 1131, being one death to every 50.9
of the population, against 2259 in the previous year, which
equalled one death to 47.8. The average number of deaths
registered during the last five years was 2117. Making due
allowance for the increase of population, the deaths last year
were 157 below the corrected decennial average. This mortality
includes all the deaths registered in the distrtct. If, however,
we deduct the 39 deaths of non-parishioners that took
place at the Metropolitan Asylum Hospital at Fulham, (allowing
the deaths of non-parishioners in the West London Hospital
and other public institutions to go as compensative allowance
for the unknown deaths of parishioners which may have taken
place in general hospitals and other public institutions outside
the district,) the corrected mortality for last year was 2178.
The gross annual death rate, therefore, taking the deaths as
registered (2217) was 19.5 per thousand persons living, being
27 less than the death rate of all London, which was 22.2. The
corrected mortality rate for the district was 19.3, being 2.9
less than that of all London. Of the deaths registered in this
district last year, 120 took place in St. Peter's, 1158 in St.
Paul's, and 939 in Fulham, against 125 in St. Peter's, 1076 in
St. Paul's, and 1058 in Fulham the previous year. The average