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Notification of Births.
During 1948 the number of notifications of live births received
belonging to the Borough was 2,195. The corrected number of
Battersea births registered during the year was 2,248. The proportion
of notified to registered births was, therefore, 97.6 per cent.
Forty-five still-births were notified under the provisions of the
Public Health (London) Act, 1936, during the year, the number notified
being 97.8 per cent. of the total Battersea still-births registered.
The homes from which births are notified are visited and revisited
by the Health Visitors.

DEATHS.
The number of deaths registered in the Borough during 1948
was 1,840. Of these 1,039 were deaths of non-residents and were
transferred to the districts in which the persons ordinarily resided.
There were, on the other hand, 513 deaths of Battersea residents registered
outside the Borough. The total (corrected) number of deaths
belonging to the Borough was 1,314 (males 697, females 617). This
gives a recorded death rate of 11.28, compared with 11.6 for London,
and 10.8 for England and Wales, and a decrease of 1.30 on 1947.