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during the year, was 1075, which is by far the largest
number recorded in the Sub-district, and by its increase on
the number of the year 1875, viz., 842, shews that a large
amount of immigration of persons of child-bearing age has
taken place. There is no doubt that to immigration is
chiefly due the estimated increase of population of 4799
during the year.
Mortality.—The total number of deaths registered
from all causes in the Eastern division of the parish of
Battersea during the year 1876, was 893. Of these 463
were males and 430 females. The number registered in
1875 was 867; the increase in the number of deaths is
only 26, while, as will be shown elsewhere, the births
have increased 259.
Taking the estimated mean population as the real
population, the death-rate for the year would be 19 per
thousand persons living. The death-rate for all London
in 1876 was 22.3 per thousand. It is but proper to state
that the official mean population, which should not be
applied to rapidly-increasing communities like our own,
would give 24.3 per thousand as the annual mortality, but
its inapplicability will be evident from the foregoing
considerations.
The usual statistics of mortality are here appended in
the usual form, presenting at a glance the sex, age, social
position, and the total numbers of persons dying during
the year under consideration, of the various diseases therein
set forth.