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and St. Peter's and St. Paul's, which together make the parish of
Hammersmith. For the sake of brevity these sub-districts are
hereafter called Fulham, St. Peter's, and St. Paul's. Fulham
comprises an area of 1,716 statute acres, St. Paul's 2,102, and St.
Peter's 185. On the 3rd day of April, 1881, when the census
was last taken, the population of Fulham was 42,900 inhabitants,
that of St. Peter's and St. Paul's together i.e. Hammersmith
Parish 71,939 inhabitants. The estimated population of the
whole district on the 31st of last December was 120,000 inhabitants.
The calculations in this report are based upon the
population estimated in the middle of the year. On the 31st of
last December there were 18,819 inhabited houses in the district
against 16,548 in the previous year. On the population estimated
at the end of last year there was an average of 6.31 persons to
each house. Of the 18,819 inhabited houses at the end of last
year, 11,920 were in the parish of Hammersmith, and 6,899 in
the parish of Fulham, against 11,000 in the parish of Hammersmith,
and 5,548 in the parish of Fulham at the end of the
previous year. There was, therefore, an increase of 2,271 in the
number of inhabited houses in the whole district last year, of
which number 920 were in the parish of Hammersmith, and 1,351
were in the parish of Fulham. In the middle of last year there
was an average of 29.0 persons to an acre in this district, while
there was an average of 50.8 persons to each acre in the whole of
London. A very large number of new houses were built in this
district last year and a great many are still being constructed.
So active have the building operations been that the supply of
new houses has been greater than the demand for them, and the
consequence is that there is a very large number of uninhabited
houses in the district.
The number of deaths registered in this district last year was
2,473 (males 1,231, females 1,242), being one death to every 46.9
of the population, against 2,217 in the previous year which
equalled one death to each 50.9. The average number of deaths
registered during the last ten years was 1,948. Making due
allowance for the increase of population the deaths last year were
37 above the corrected decennial average. This mortality includes
all the deaths registered in the district. If however we
deduct the 223 deaths of non-parishioners that took place at theMetropolitan
Asylum Small-pox Hospital at Fulham, allowing
the deaths of non-parishioners that took place 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 insti-