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Births, Marriages and Deaths.
Population.
The population of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea
(created in November, 1900, under the provisions of the London
Government Act, 1899, and formed from the old Parish of
Battersea, after some rearrangement between the two districts
of Wandsworth and Battersea, to define the boundary line) as
estimated by the Registrar-General at the middle of 1909 was
186,036, made up as follows :—
East Battersea 77,469
North-West Battersea 49,417
South-West Battersea 59,150
186,036
The estimate of the Registrar-General is based on the assumptionthat
the rate of increase of population during the last intercensal
period was maintained during the subsequent years. It
is probably somewhat too high, but it has been adopted in this
report so that the Battersea statistics may be comparable with
those of other districts.

Births.
The total number of births belonging to the Borough of
Battersea during 1909 was 4,450. Of the total births 2,289 were
males and 2,161 females, showing an excess of 128 males. The
number of births showed a decrease of 179, as compared with
the total for 1908, and was 423 below the decennial average 18991908,
and 825 less than the number in 1884, when the population
was only 121,299. The births in the sub-districts were as
follows :—