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Town Hall,
Fulham, S.W.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Metropolitan Borough of Fulham.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit my Annual Report for
the year 1918 which, in accordance with the suggestion
of the Local Government Board is limited to a brief
record of the vital statistics and the work of the Public
Health Department.
Population.—The Registrar General has adopted
the following estimates for the calculation of the deathrate
and birth-rate of the borough.
For the death-rate 143,211
For the birth-rate 160,463
The death-rate population excluded all non-civilian
males whether serving at home or abroad. The birth-rate
population is intended to include all the elements of the
population contributing to the birth and marriage rates.
It consists, therefore, of the death-rate or civilian population
plus all non-civilians enlisted from this country
whether serving at home or abroad. This non-civilian
element has been distributed over all the districts in the
country in proportion to their estimated civilian population.
It is probable, looking at the crowded state of the
borough, that these estimates are below the true figures.
Marriages.—1,471 marriages were registered during
the year against 2,043, 1,918 and 1,408 in the three preceeding
years.
Births.—The births, corrected by the distribution of
those occurring in lying-in institutions to the boroughs in
which the mothers resided, numbered 2,672 against 2,971