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The birth-rate shows a decline in three Wards of the Borough
and an increase in the six remaining Wards. The birth-rate in
Battersea is 1.9 per 1,000 lower than the average for the previous
decennium 1925-1934.
The birth-rate for the County of London was 13.3 per 1,000
of the population, and for England and Wales the rate was 14.7.
Illegitimate births numbered 87 or 4.13 per cent. of the live
births.
The number of births occurring in each quarter of the year is
shown in the table on page 12.
Under the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1926, the
registration of still-births was made compulsory. During 1935,
69 stillbirths were registered as belonging to Battersea.

DEATHS.
The number of deaths registered in the Borough during 1935
was 2,860. Of these, 1,456 were deaths of non-residents and were
transferred to the districts in which the persons ordinarily resided.
There were on the other hand, 380 deaths of Battersea residents
registered outside the Borough. The total (corrected) number of
deaths belonging to the Borough was 1,784 (males 917, females
867). This gives a recorded death-rate of 12.04 compared with
11.4 for London, and 11.7 for England and Wales.
The Registrar-General has supplied a factor for the purpose of
rendering the death-rate of the Borough comparable with that of
a district the population of which is of standard age and sex distribution.
For the year 1935 this factor is 0.99, and the adjusted
death-rate for the purpose of such comparison is therefore 11.9.
The distribution of the deaths and the death-rate per 1,000
inhabitants for each of the sub-districts and the nine wards is
shown in the table on page 9.