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character of which is shown by the fact that in the
Shaftesbury Park Estate alone 2,804 additional inhabitants
found a home in 1874, besides which numerous houses
and apartments which were formerly untenanted were
occupied during the past year—indeed, there is scarcely
an empty house in the Sub-district, a great improvement
upon the state of matters in 1871, when one-sixth of the
whole number of houses in the parish were empty.
Evidently the official mean population is only sufficient
to account for the ordinary increase of population,
and to arrive at a correct conclusion as to the real deathrate,
the inhabitants of the Shaftesbury Park Estate must
be taken into account, which would together give a mean
population for 1874 of 35,889, which I have reason to
believe is rather under than over the actual number,
the birth-rate showing a mean population of 37,023, as is
hereafter explained.
Mortality.—The deaths registered in the Eastern
division of Battersea during 1874 were 701. The number
registered in 1873 was 578, showing an increase of 123,
fully accounted for by the largely-increased population.
Of these, 380 were males and 321 females.
The real population, which as I show elsewhere, from
a consideration of the birth-rate and other data, may be
assumed to be 37,023, would give a death-rate for the
year 1874 of 18.9 per thousand per annum, or 3.7 per
thousand lower than the metropolis generally. The
official population of 33,085 gives a death-rate of 21.1 per
thousand, which is 1.5 lower than that of London at
large, which was, for the year 1874, 22.6 per thousand.
The accompanying statistical table gives in detail the
cause of death, age, social position, and other particulars,
of the whole of the deaths registered as occurring in East
Battersea during the year 1874.