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to the Destry of the Parish of st. Mary,
Battersea.
Gentlemen,
An essential preliminary to the determination of the mortality
and other rates for the parish of Battersea during the year
1893, is to ascertain the mean or average population which
existed during that year.
The annual increase of population in the parish between the
census enumerations of 1881 and 1891, was 4,319 persons. If to
the ascertained mean population for 1892, which was 155,856,
the above number be added, a mean population for the year 1893
of 160,175 will result. Upon these numbers the various calculations
which follow are based.
It will be useful, and certainly interesting, to state the following
facts with reference to the Metropolis at large as a preliminary,
in order to have some standard by which to judge the various
rates which are found to have existed in Battersea during 1893.
The estimated mean population of the Metropolis when
calculated in the usual manner, will be found to have reached
in 1893 the enormous number of 4,306,411.
The number of births registered during 1893, as returned
by the Registrar General in his weekly returns, was 132,965,
which, calculated by the estimated mean population given above
would give a bijrth-rate equal to 31 per thousand for the year as
the rate for London.