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pared with a death rate of 19.9 or one death to 50.0 persons living
last year. This decrease in the mortality rate was due to the comparatively
small number of deaths of non-parishioners at the
Western District Hospital at Fulham last year. The fact however
that the mortality rate last year was .9 below the decennial average,
although the density of the population has increased in the same
period from 18.2 to 37.1 persons per acre, is proof that the state of
public health has not deteriorated.
TABLE III.
The following table shows the deaths of each sex registered in
each of the quarters of the year 1882 in the Fulham district.
Sub-dist. of St. Peters.
Sub.dist. of St.Pauls
Sub-dist. of Fulham.
Qr.
Mean
Tempera
ture.
Males.
Females.
Total.
Males.
Females.
Total.
Males.
Females.
Total
Grand
Total.
DEG.
1st
42.3
10
32
42
184
205
389
159
171
330
761
2nd
53.0
16
13
29
123
136
259
135
135
270
558
3rd
58.1
19
16
35
131
135
266
122
111
233
534
4th
44.7
17
9
26
14.0
193
333
137
150
287
646
Yr.
495
62
70
132
578
669
1247
553
567
1120
2499
The foregoing table shows that the greatest number of deaths
took place in the first and fourth quarters, the two quarters in
which the mean temperature was lowest. In both of these quarters
the number of deaths was increased by lung diseases, the result of
the low temperature. Owing to the moderate temperature during
the second and third quarters, the number of deaths from enteric
diseases was comparatively small. The deaths of females exceeded
those of males by 113. The mortality rate of males was as usual
greater than that of females. The great disproportion in the number
of males and females living in the district is the cause of the
actual number of deaths of females being the larger. It is chiefly
owing to the much greater mortality among males that there are
so many more females, for there are more males annually born than
females.
The number of births registered in this district last year was
4637 (males 2356, females 2281), against 4513 in the previous year.
The number of births of males exceeded that of females by 75.
Of the births registered last year there were 225 in St Peter's (males
113, females 112); 2348 in St Paul's (males 1189, females 1159);
and 2064 in Fulham (males 1054, females 1010). The birth rate
in the whole district was at the rate of 37.1 births per 1000 persons
living per annum, being one birth to each 26.9 persons. The birth
rate in the whole of London was equal to 34.3 births per 1000