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Battersea 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]
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Vital Statistics.
The Registrar-General's estimate of the mid-year population
of Battersea (1937) was 143,500 as compared with 145,500 in
1936. The population of Battersea at the Census taken in April,
1931, was 159,552, and the Registrar-General's estimate for 1937
therefore indicates a decrease of 16,052 (or 10 per cent.) since the
Census, and 2,000 during 1936-7.
The Registrar-General's estimate of the mid-year population
of the Borough (143,500) has been adopted for the purpose of the
statistics contained in this report.
The estimated mid-year population based upon the Registrar-General's figures, for the registration sub-districts* and for each of the nine wards into which the Borough is divided, is set out in the following table:—
| Area. | Acres. | Estimated mid-year population, 1937. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Males. | Females. | Total. | Density per acre | ||
| Wards. | |||||
| 1. Nine Elms | 407 | 11,349 | 11,551 | 22,900 | 56·3 |
| 2. Park | 316 | 7,164 | 8,034 | 15,198 | 48·1 |
| 3. Latchmere | 182 | 7,885 | 8,657 | 16,542 | 90·9 |
| 5. Church | 171 | 7,449 | 7,620 | 15,069 | 88·1 |
| North Battersea | |||||
| 4. Shaftesbury | 140 | 6,108 | 6,581 | 12,689 | 90·6 |
| 6. Winstanley | 126 | 8,535 | 8,722 | 17,257 | 137·0 |
| 7. St. John | 117 | 3,364 | 4,334 | 7,698 | 65·8 |
| 8. Bolingbroke | 205 | 7,534 | 9,088 | 16,622 | 81·1 |
| 9. Broomwood | 499 | 8,520 | 11,005 | 19,525 | 39·1 |
| South Battersea | |||||
BIRTHS.
The number of live births registered in the Borough during
1937 was 2,771 (1,409 male, 1,362 female), an excess of 47 males.
Of this number 1,014 were transferred out, the permanent residence
of the parents being outside the Borough, and 387, registered outside
the Borough, were transferred in, giving on balance a total of
2,144 births (1,100 male, 1,044 female) relating to Battersea residents,
and a corrected (live) birth-rate of 14.94 per 1,000 of the
population. This is an increase of 0.31 on that of 1936.
The tables on the next two pages give the distribution of the
births and the birth-rate per l,000 of the population in the subdistricts
and in the wards for the year 1937, and figures relating
to the previous decennium 1927-36:—
* Births, deaths, etc., occurring in St. James's Hospital Sub-district (situate
within Broomwood Ward) are allocated to the District in which the
patient ordinarily resides.