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Battersea 1938
[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 (1938) was 141,700, as compared with 143,500 in
1937. The population of Battersea at the Census taken in April,
1931, was 159,552, and the Registrar-General's estimate for 1938
therefore indicates a decrease of 17,852 (or 11 per cent.) since the
Census, and 1,800 during 1937-8.
The Registrar-General's estimate of the mid-year population
of the Borough (141,700) 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, 1938. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Males. | Females. | Total. | Density per acre | ||
| Wards. | |||||
| 1. Nine Elms | 407 | 11,207 | 11,406 | 22,613 | 55.6 |
| 2. Park | 316 | 7,074 | 7,933 | 15,007 | 47.5 |
| 3. Latchmere | 182 | 7,786 | 8,549 | 16,335 | 89.8 |
| 5. Church | 171 | 7,356 | 7,524 | 14,880 | 87.0 |
| North Battersea | |||||
| 4. Shaftesbury | 140 | 6,031 | 6,499 | 12,530 | 89.5 |
| 6. Winstanley | 126 | 8,428 | 8,612 | 17,040 | 135.2 |
| 7. St. John | 117 | 3,322 | 4,279 | 7,601 | 65.0 |
| 8. Bolingbroke | 205 | 7,440 | 8,974 | 16,414 | 80.1 |
| 9. Broomwood | 499 | 8,413 | 10,867 | 19 280 | 38.6 |
| South Battersea | |||||
BIRTHS.
The number of live births registered in the Borough during
1938 was 2,898 (1,457 male, 1,441 female), an excess of 16 males.
Of this number 1,288 were transferred out, the permanent residence
of the parents being outside the Borough, and 504, registered outside
the Borough, were transferred in, giving on balance a total of
2,114 births (1,056 male, 1,058 female) relating to Battersea residents,
and a corrected (live) birth-rate of 14.92 per 1,000 of the
population. This is a decrease of 0.02 on that of 1937.
The tables on the next two pages give the distribution of the
births and the birth-rate per 1,000 of the population in the subdistricts
and in the wards for the year 1938, and figures relating
to the previous decennium 1928-37:—
* 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.