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THE
VESTRY OF THE PARISH OF FULHAM.
SANITARY DEPARTMENT
Vestry Offices, Walham Green, S.W.
September, 1889.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present to you my Third Annual Report for the
Parish of Fulham.
The vital statistics are for the registration year ended 31st December,
1588, and the sanitary statistics for the parochial year ended March
25th, 1889.
The estimated population for the year, calculated on the increased
number of inhabited houses, amounts to 86,000.
The sanitary statistics, which deal with the parochial year, are, as
usual, considered in two separate districts, the Northern and the Southern.
The area of the Parish in statute acres is 1,716, giving a rate of 5011
inhabitants per acre. The average for the Metropolis being 57.3
inhabitants per acre.
During the year 2,983 Births were registered in the Parish, viz:—
Males, 1577, and Females, 1406, as against 2870 in last year, being at the
annual rate of 3468 per 1000 inhabitants. The annual birth rate
throughout the Metropolis was 30.7.
The births registered during the first quarter of the year were the
highest, viz:—787, and during the third quarter the lowest, viz:—708.
There were 1577 deaths registered during the year, viz:—Males 763
and Females 814, as against 1545 in the previous year. Of these, 202
were non-parishioners. 120 deaths of Parishioners occurred in public
institutions out of the Parish. Deducting the deaths of non-parishioners
and adding those of Parishioners dying out of the Parish, the deaths
were equivalent to a rate of 17.38 per 1000 inhabitants. The death rate
throughout the Metropolis was 18.5 per 1000. Of the deaths, 487 were
of children under one year, and 298 were of persons of 60 years and
upwards.