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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Sex Distribution.
The females enumerated in Fulham exceed the males by
7,985, there being 112.4 females for every 100 males, which
compares with 113.9 for every 100 at the Census of 1891, and
111.3 for every 100 at that of 1896. In the County of London
there are 111.8 females for every 100 males.
The variation in the proportion of males to females in the
several Wards of the Borough will be seen in the following
table:—
TABLE III.
Registration Sub-Districts. | Area in Acres. | Houses. | Population. | |||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Inhabited. | Uninhabited. | Building. | Families or Separate Occupiers. | Persons. | ||||||||||||
1891. | 1896. | 1901. | 1891. | 1896. | 1901. | 1891. | 1896. | 1901. | 1891. | 1896. | 1901. | 1891. | 1896. | 1901. | ||
North-west Fulham | 485.2 | 3,365 | 4,458 | 5,711 | 155 | 142 | 262 | 59 | 46 | 138 | 5,244 | 7,948 | 10,247 | 25,723 | 35,861 | 45,180 |
North-east Fulham | 513.7 | 5,680 | 5,980 | 6,125 | 324 | 263 | 315 | 64 | 22 | 48 | 9,516 | 11,063 | 11,278 | 40,319 | 45,093 | 46,405 |
South Fulham | 704.6 | 3,840 | 4,848 | 6,698 | 318 | 333 | 256 | 216 | 148 | 113 | 5,880 | 7,673 | 10,612 | 25,748 | 32,827 | 45,704 |
1,703.5 | 12,885 | 15,286 | 18,534 | 797 | 738 | 833 | 339 | 216 | 299 | 20,640 | 26,684 | 32,137 | 91,790 | 113,781 | 137,289 |
Age Distribution.
Table V. shows the number of each sex grouped according to
ages, and Table VI. shows the proportion of the population at
different ages in Fulham and the County of London in 1891
and 1901.