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Fulham 1928
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Fulham]
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7.
1. General Statistics.
Area (acres) 1,706
Population 155,300
No. of inhabited houses (1921 Census) 25,979
No. of families or separate occupiers (1921
Census 40,436
Rateable Value £1,099,718
Sum represented by penny rate £4-420
2. Extracts from Vital Statistics for the Year.
| Births:— | Total | Males | Females | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Legitimate | 2261 | 1144 | 1117 | Birth Rate | 15.4 | ||
| Illegitimate | 127 | 73 | 54 | ||||
| Deaths:— | 1780 | 848 | 932 | Death Rate | 11.5 | ||
| No. of women dying in, or in consequence of, child birth:— | |||||||
| From sepsis | 5 | ||||||
| From other causes | 3 | ||||||
| Deaths of Infants under one year of age per 1,000 births:— | |||||||
| Legitimate | 69 | Illegitimate | 147 | Rate 77 | |||
| Deaths from:— | |||||||
| Measles (all ages) | 15 | ||||||
| Whooping Cough (all ages) | 12 | ||||||
| Diarrheoa (under 2 years of age) | 53 | ||||||
Population. —The Registrar-General has estimated
the population of the Borough at the middle of 1928
to be 155,300.
Marriages.—The number of marriages was 1,412,
and the marriage rate, i.e., the number of marriages
per 1,000 of the population, was 9.1. In the two preceding
years the marriages numbered 1,401 in 1927 and
1,265 in 1926, thus showing an increase of 11 for 1928.
Births.—The births corrected by the distribution
of those occurring in lying-in institutions in the Borough
to the districts in which the mothers resided, and the
inclusion of children born to Fulham mothers in institutions
outside the Borough, numbered 2,388, of whom
1,217 were boys and 1,171 were girls. The birth-rate
was 15.4. The birth-rate for the whole of London was
15.9, and for England and Wales 16.7.