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birth-rate of Battersea, as has beta shewn in former Reports,
has generally reached the high rate of 42 per thousand, upon
which basis a population of 42,058 is deducible. It is not
possible to state positively that this large number of persons
actually were resident in this division of the parish, but the
probabilities are that the real numbers are rather above than
below those thus estimated.
The so-called natural increase of population, which is
arrived at by deducting the deaths (867) which were
registered in the Eastern division of Battersea during the
year 1875, from the births (1709) similarly recorded, were
842. This natural increase is, however, not sufficient as a
datum for calculating the increase of population in a district
where immigration is so active as in that under consideration.
Mortality.—The total number of deaths registered
during the year 1875 in the Eastern division of the parish
of Battersea was 867. The number registered in the
previous year was 701, the increase being 166, which the
large addition to the population accounts for. Of this
number 430 were males and 437 females.
If the real population has increased in the manner and
to the extent indicated, its number may be estimated at
42,058 for the middle of the year 1875; and the deathrate
will have been 20.6 per thousand per annum, or 3.1
lower than the death-rate for London during 1875, which
was 23.7.
The accompanying statistical Table gives, as heretofore,
the cause of death, the age and social position of the persons
whose deaths were included in the mortality returns during
the year.