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east battersea.
The official mean population of the sub-district of
East Battersea, calculated in accordance with the method
formulated by the Registrar-General to the middle day
of the year 1887, was 72,550. This calculation is on
the assumption that an equal number of persons was
added to the population during the year, as was found
to have been the case during each of the ten years,
1871-81.
The number thus added, 2,948 annually, is probably
not far from the actual number, as nearly one-half, viz :
1,472 was the natural increase of the population in 1887,
the births exceeding the deaths to that extent, which was
at the rate of 20.28 per thousand, in 1886 the rate being
20 per thousand.
The subjoined table shews the relative proportions of
the birth and death-rates, with the actual natural increase
of the population, for the ten years preceeding.