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BIRTHS AND BIRTH RATE.
During the year, five thousand one hundred and seventy-nine
births were registered ; of these two thousand six hundred and
eighty-nine were males and two thousand four hundred and ninety
females, producing a birth-rate for the year equal to 29.6 per
1,000 of the population, that for the Metropolis within the same
being equal to 29.4 per 1,000, the births registered in London

numbering one hundred and thirty-three thousand one hundred
and twenty. I have again to point out the close approximation
between the local and the metropolitan birth-rates, of which,
however, Battersea shows the better figures. This similarity
is obviously due to the fact that Battersea is rapidly acquiring
the characteristics of a town district in place of its former
suburban nature.
DEATHS AND DEATH RATES.
The deaths registered in Battersea during the year,
numbered two thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight. Of these
one thousand four hundred and thirty-nine were of males and one
thousand four hundred and nineteen of females, there being a
remarkably equal distribution of the mortality amongst the sexes.
The death-rate of those actually registered in the Parish, inclusive
of non-parishioners, i.e.,the un-corrected death-rate, was equal to
16.3 per 1,000, compared with 19.8 in the whole Metropolis,
where the deaths registered numbered eighty-nine thousand six
hundred and eighty-nine.