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Still-horn Children.
131 still-born children were buried in Fulham Cemetery,
being in the proportion of one still-born child to every 37
living.
Excess of Births over Deaths.
The natural increase of the population of the Borough by
the excess of births over deaths was 2,550, compared with
2,390, 2,559, and 2,417 in the three preceding years.
The above represents the births before " distribution'';
if these are corrected for those occurring in Lying-in Institutions
the excess of births over deaths was 2,636.
DEATHS AND DEATH-RATE.
The deaths of 2,192 persons—1,064 males and 1,128
females—were registered in Fulham during the year, but of
these 302—1(51 males and 141 females―were of persons not
residing in the district who died in public institutions within
the Borough; while the deaths of 327 persons―196 males and
131 females—belonging to Fulham occurred outside the district
chiefly in various public institutions.
There were, therefore, 2,217 deaths of persons belonging
to Fulham—1,099 males and 1,1 18 females—being in the proportion
of 13.9 deaths per 1,000 persons living; the rate for
males being 14.7, and for females 13.3.
With the exception of that for 1903, which was also 13.9,
this is the lowest death-rate recorded in Fulham.
The death-rate of the County of London for 1906 was
15.1. Among the Metropolitan Boroughs the lowest deathrates
were 9.4 in Hampstead, 11.5 in Stoke Newington, 12.0
in Lewisham, and 12.8 in Wandsworth; and the highest 18.9
in Bethnal Green, 19.6 in Shoreditch, 19.7 in Bermondsey,
and 20.7 in Finsbury.
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