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EAST BATTERSEA.
The population of the Eastern Division of the parish of
Battersea for the middle day of the year 1884, according to
the mode of computation officially recognized by the RegistrarGeneral
was 63,706. It is probable that this is less than the
real number of persons residing in the sub-district as will be
subsequently shewn when estimating the birth-rate.
Births.—The number of births registered in East Battersea
during the year under report was 2,621. Of these 1,360
were of males and 1,261 of females. The resulting birth-rate
in the official mean population of 63,706 would be equal to
41.14 per thousand per annum, a rate which points to a larger
real population residing in the sub-district than is estimated
by the official method. It has been demonstrated in many
previous annual reports that the real birth-rate of the subdistrict
is 39 per thousand per annum, with scarcely any
variation from year to year; the birth-rate of a given
population being almost absolutely identical from one year
to another. The estimated mean population as calculated from
the known number of births and the mean annual birth-rate
of 39 per thousand would be 67,205, and the census returns
have always shewn calculations thus based to be almost
absolutely correct.