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The estimated mean population of the Metropolis, arrived
at in a similar manner to that described above, as employed for
this parish, was 4,392,346 for the year 1895.
The births registered in London during 1894, as given by
the Registrar General in his weekly returns, numbered 133,715,
and calculated on the estimated mean population the birth rate
would be equal to 30.5 per thousand per annum.
The following pages will show that the birth rate for
Battersea during 1895, was 31.1 per thousand, against 30.5 per
thousand for London.
The total number of deaths recorded in all London during
1895, was 86,937 which, calculated upon the same population,
would give 19.8 per thousand per annum as the death rate for
the Metropolis during 1895.
The Battersea death rate was 17.1 per thousand, including
all persons dying in the parish, whether belonging thereto or
not, the death rate for London was therefore 37 per thousand
higher than that of Battersea. Subsequent corrections, by
eliminating non-parishioners dying in the parish and adding
parishioners dying elsewhere, will reduce this difference to 2.3
per thousand in favour of Battersea.