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Fulham 1906
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Fulham]
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Health of the County of London has published a factor for
the correction of differences in the age and sex constitution of
each Metropolitan Borough; the multiplication of the
recorded death-rate of the district by this factor gives the
death-rate which would obtain if the sex and age constitution
of the population were in the same proportion as it is in the
whole of England and Wales, thus eliminating the difference
due to age and sex.
Corrected in this way, the death-rates of Fulham, the
County of London, and the adjoining boroughs, were as
under:—
TABLE V.
Death-rate per 1,000 population in each Ward.
| Baron's Court Ward. | Lillie Ward. | Walham Ward. | Margravine Ward. | Munster Ward. | Hurlingham Ward. | Sands End Ward. | Town Ward. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1896 | 13.9 | 19.4 | 16.4 | 20.0 | 20.4 | 13.3 | 17.7 | 14.2 |
| 1897 | 13.6 | 16.4 | 17.5 | 18.8 | 18.2 | 17.2 | 19.4 | 12.9 |
| 1898 | 12.7 | 16.2 | 20.1 | 20.5 | 17.7 | 17.1 | 15.7 | 16.6 |
| 1899 | 14.2 | 17.7 | 19.5 | 22.0 | 20.0 | 15.4 | 19.4 | 15.4 |
| 1900 | 12.9 | 18.3 | 20.2 | 19.4 | 18.2 | 13.1 | 16.3 | 15.9 |
| 1901 | 10.9 | 16.5 | 17.5 | 16.2 | 15.6 | 14.7 | 18.2 | 12.9 |
| 1902 | 13.5 | 16.8 | 20.2 | 20.0 | 16.3 | 14.5 | 18.5 | 14.3 |
| 1903 | 10.9 | 14.5 | 15.5 | 18.4 | 12.5 | 13.0 | 13.1 | 14.1 |
| 1904 | 13.6 | 15.8 | 19.7 | 16.2 | 15.0 | 15.1 | 14.5 | 14.3 |
| 1905 | 13.0 | 16.1 | 17.8 | 16.6 | 13.9 | 15.1 | 15.1 | 14.1 |
| Average 10 yrs. 1896-1905 | 12.9 | 16.8 | 18.4 | 18.9 | 16.8 | 14.9 | 16.8 | 14.5 |
| 1906 | 11.3 | 14.3 | 17.5 | 17.9 | 13.1 | 13.5 | 13.0 | 12.0 |
Seasonal Mortality.
The mortality in the four quarters of the year was as
under:—
Deaths.
Death-rate.
First quarter
549
13.8
Second quarter
479
12.0
Third quarter
569
14.3
Fourth quarter
620
15.6
Mortality in Former Years.
In Table II. will be found the number of deaths and the
death-rate for each of the 10 preceding years. The difference
between the rate for 1906 and the average rate for the 10 preceding
years, 1896 to 1905, represents a saving of 428 lives.
MORTALITY AT DIFFERENT AGES.
Infantile Mortality.
Of the 2,217 deaths registered, 649, or 29.8 per cent, were
of infants under one year of age, and the rate of infant mortality
measured by the proportion of deaths under one year