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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Battersea 1895
Report upon the public health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Battersea during the year1895
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| Brought forward | 2,897 | ||
| Westminster Schools- | |||
| - | |||
| (6) Non-Parishioners | 2 | ||
| Southlands College— | |||
| 1 | 1 | ||
| (6) Non-Parishioners | - | ||
| Broomwood College— | |||
| (a) Parishioners | 1 | 1 | |
| - | |||
| Total | 2,901 | ||
being four hundred and ninety-seven more than in 1894, that
being a year of unusually low mortality and 1895 including a
very cold and prolonged winter and spring, causing an increased
mortality during the earlier months of the year as shewn in
Table II.
Deaths occurring within the parish, of persons not belonging thereto:
| In the Union Infirmary | 228 |
| In the Bolingbroke Hospital | 10 |
| In the Westminster Schools | 2 |
| Elsewhere | 7 |
| Total | 247 |
Two hundred and four was the number of non-parishioners
registered as dying in the parish during 1894.
In order, however, to arrive at a corrected death rate, it is
necessary to eliminate the two hundred and forty-seven persons,
shewn in the above table as not belonging to the parish who
died therein, and to include the deaths of the three hundred
and seven parishioners who died in the various public institutions
of the Metropolis and elsewhere, by which method a total
corrected mortality of two thousand nine hundred and sixty
one would be arrived at; equal to a death rate of 17.5 per
thousand per annum. This may be contrasted with the
Metropolitan death rate of 19.8 per thousand during the year
1895, the deaths which took place within the boundaries of the