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Battersea 1898
Report upon the public health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Battersea...
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To the Vestry of the Parish of St. Mary,
Battersea.
Gentlemen,
A recapitulation of the main facts of the Census enumeration
of 1896 is again necessary in order that the following statistics
may be seen to be correctly based.
The Census taken on March 29th, 1896, shewed that the
increase of population in the preceding five years had not quite
kept pace with that which prevailed during the last few intercensal
periods; in fact, since 1871-81 the rate of increase has
uniformly decreased, the probable reason of which is that nearly
all the available building land in the parish has been covered.
The following are the particulars of the last three census enumerations, the number of inhabited houses, of persons, and of inhabitants per house being given for the several wards into which the parish is at present divided.
| Census 1881. | Census 1891. | Census 1896. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inhabited Houses. | Population. | No. of Inhabitants per House. | Inhabited Houses. | Population. | No. of Inhabitants per House. | Inhabited Houses. | Population | No. of Inhabitants per House. | |
| 2,665 | 23,667 | 8.9 | 3,327 | 27,899 | 8.3 | 3,442 | 29,178 | 8.4 | |
| „ 2 | 5,120 | 37,011 | 7.2 | 6,748 | 50,087 | 7.4 | 6,846 | 52,653 | 7.7 |
| „ 3 | 4,536 | 31,652 | 6.9 | 5,457 | 40,217 | 7.3 | 5,705 | 43,119 | 7.5 |
| „ 4 | 2,284 | 14,932 | 6.5 | 5,247 | 32,255 | 6.1 | 6,428 | 40,165 | 6.2 |
| 14,605 | 107,262 | 7.3 | 20,779 | 150,458 | 7.2 | 22,421 | 165,115 | 7.4 | |