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BATTERSEA EAST.
The official mean population of Eastern Battersea for
the year 1877 was 38,308. This is, however, admittedly
under the real number of inhabitants, which is arrived at
approximately by estimating the birth-rate to be 42 per
thousand, which has been found, during the census
years, to be the usual birth-rate for this Sub-district. As
1972 births were registered during the year on the abovementioned
basis, an estimated mean population for the
middle day of the year 1877 of 46,952 will be deduced.
The natural increase of population consists in the
excess of births over deaths, and as the former were 1972,
and the latter but 905, an increment of 1067 to the
numbers resident in the Sub-district thus occurred during
the year 1877.
Mortality.—The Registrar has recorded the deaths
of 470 males and 435 females, the total number being
905, who resided in the Sub-district of Eastern Battersea
during the year under report. The number registered in
the previous year was 893, and the difference in numbers
between the two years but 12, which is fully accounted
for by the increased population.
The estimated mean population being assumed to be
nearly, if not absolutely, correct, it will be found that the
death-rate for the Sub-district during 1877 was 19.25 per
thousand. The official mean population would give a