Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Fulham]
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TABLE II.
The following table shows the mean temperature, the population, the
number of persons to each acre, the number of births, the proportion
of births to each 1000 persons living, the number of deaths, the
proportion of death to each 1000 persons living, and the proportion of
persons living at each death:—
Year.
Mean
Temperature
Fahrnt.
Population
Estimated
Number of
Persons to
each acre.
Number
of
Births.
Proportion
of
Births to
1000 persons
living
Number
of
Deaths.
Proportion
of
Deaths to
each 1000
Persons
living.
Proportion
of persons
living
to each
death.
DEG.
1874
49.4
78000
19.5
2807
35.9
1660
21.3
46.9
1875
49.4
84000
21.0
3035
36.1
1875
22.3
48.8
1876
50.1
92000
23.0
3315
36.0
1964
21.3
46.8
1877
49.7
96000
24.0
3409
35.5
1771
18.4
54.2
1878
49.6
100000
25.0
3610
36.1
2358
23.5
42.4
1879
46.2
107000
26.7
3957
36.9
2219
20.7
48.2
1880
49.1
113500
28.4
4195
37.8
2331
19.7
50.9
1881
48.8
116000
29.0
4513
38.9
2473
21.3
46.9
1882
49.5
125000
31.2
4637
37.1
2499
19.9
50.0
1883
49.4
138000
34.5
5008
36.3
2607
18.9
52.9
The mean mortality rate in this district during the last ten years
was 21.7 per 1000 persons living, being one death to each 461 persons,
as compared with a death rate of 18.9, and one death to 52.9 persons
living last year. When we take into consideration the fact that the
mortality rate in the district last year was 2.8 below the decennial
average, and l.5 less than the death rate in all London, although the
density of the population has increased from 195 to 34.5 persons in an
acre in the same decade, it may with safety be said that the state of
public health in this district is not deteriorating.
TABLE III.
The following table shows the deaths of each sex registered in the
Fulham district in each of the quarters of the year 1883:—
Sub-district of St. Peter's.
Sub-district of St. Paul's
Sub-district of Fulham.
Grand
Total.
Qr.
Mean
Temprature.
Males.
Females
Total.
Males.
Females
Total.
Males.
Females
Total.
DEG.
1st
40.0
13
15
28
158
160
318
172
146
318
664
2nd
52.9
12
19
31
164
178
342
141
155
296
669
3rd
59.7
10
11
21
143
150
293
156
158
314
628
4th
45.1
11
17
28
146
163
309
139
170
309
646
Yr.
49.4
46
62
108
611
651
1262
608
629
1237
2607