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ANNUAL REPORT
of the
Medical Officer of Health
of the
FULHAM DISTRICT,
For the Year 1882.
Broadway House, Hammersmith,
June 27th, 1883.
To the Fulham District Board of Works.
Gentlemen,—
I beg to present to you my Annual Report for the Year
1882. In it will be found the vital statistics for the year together
with an account of the measures adopted by you for the preservation
of public health.
The Fulham District comprises an area of 4003 acres, and in the
middle of last year its estimated population was 125,000 inhabitants.
It is divided for registration purposes into three sub-districts,
namely Fulham which is the parish of Fulham, and St. Peter's
and St. Paul's which together constitute the parish of Hammersmith.
These three subdistricts are hereafter designated as Fulham,
St Peter's, and St Paul's. Fulham contains an area of
1716 statute acres, St Paul's 2102, and St Peter's 185. In the
middle of last year there were 19523 inhabited houses in
the district against 18819 at the end of the previous year, On the
estimated population in the middle of last year there was an
average of 6.4 persons in each house. Of the inhabited houses
in the middle of last year there were 12250 in the parish of Hammersmith
and 7273 in the parish of Fulham, against 11920 in the
parish of Hammersmith and 6899 in the parish of Fulham at the
end of the previous year. During the first six months of the past
year there was therefore an increase of 704 in the number of inhabited
houses. The total number of inhabit 3d houses in the whole district
on the 31st of last December was 20,864, being an increase of
2045 in the year. Of this total number there were 12,700 in the parish
of Hammersmith, and 8,164 in the parish of Fulham. There was
therefore an increase of 780 houses inhabited in the parish of
Hammersmith, and an increase of 1265 in the parish of Fulham.
In the middle of last year there was on the estimated population
an average of 31.2 persons to each acre in this district while there
was an average of 51.6 to each acre in the whole of London. Very
active building operations are still being carried on, although there