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BATTERSEA.
In the fifty-two weeks constituting the year 1867, there
were registered in the Sub-district 870 deaths (439 males,
and 431 females). The births in the same period were
1,734 (913 males and 821 females). The excess of births
over deaths is therefore 864, which is greater by 388 than
it was in the preceding year. It is satisfactory also to
find that the deaths were fewer by 132 than in 1866.
In my last report I assumed upon good authority, that
the population had nearly or quite doubled itself since the
census of 1861, and that it amounted in the year 1866 to
(in round numbers) 39,700. Adding now the natural
increase or the excess of births over deaths for the year
1867, and allowing only an equal number for increase by
immigration, the number of inhabitants must considerably
exceed 41,000. If this be so the mortuary rate must have
been brought down from 25 to something under 21 per
1,000 living.
The following carefully compiled table will furnish, as
usual, the necessary particulars concerning the deaths that
have been registered within the year, and will further
show the social position of the deceased, as well as their
lex and ages at eight periods of life.