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The following table shows the increase of the population
of the Borough during the last 50 years.
TABLE I.
Year.
Population.
Increase per cent,
during previous
intercensal period.
Persons
to
the Acre.
1851 Census
11,866
—
7.0
1861 „
15,539
30.9
9.1
1871 „
23,378
50.5
13.7
1881 „
42,900
83.5
25.2
1891 „
91,640
113.6
53.9
1896 „
113,781
24.4
67.0
1901 „
137,289
20.6
80.6
1904 estimated
152,482
—
89.7
MARRIAGES.
The marriages registered during the year numbered 1,227,
compared with 1,182, 1,123 and 1,139 in the three precedingyears.
The marriage-rate, i.e., the number of persons married
per 1,000 inhabitants, was 16.8, the average for the last 10 years
being 16.3.
BIRTHS AND BIRTH-RATE.
The total number of births registered in the borough during
the year was 4,905— 2,512 of males and 2,393 of females. This
is equivalent to a birth-rate of 32.2 per 1,000, which is the lowest
yet recorded in Fulham.
The continued decline in the birth-rate of Fulham of recent
years, which is shared by nearly every part of the United Kingdom,
will be seen on reference to table II.
The birth-rate of the County of London was 27-9, being lower
than in any previous year, the rate in the preceding 10 years
averaging 29.0 per 1,000.
Among the various metropolitan boroughs the rates ranged
from 14-8 in the City of London, 16.4 in Westminster, 16.6 in
Hampstead and 19.3 in Kensington, to 32.7 in Poplar, 34.9 in
Bethnal (xreen, 36.4 in Finsbury and 37.0 in Stepney.
In 75 provincial towns the birth-rate averaged 29.6 per 1,000.