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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Battersea 1894
Report upon the public health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Battersea during the year1894
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Deaths occurring within the parish, of persons not belonging thereto:
| In the Union Infirmary | 191 |
| In the Bolingbroke Hospital | 7 |
| In the Emanuel School | 1 |
| Elsewhere | 5 |
| Total | 204 |
In order, however, to arrive at a corrected death rate, it is
necessary to eliminate the two hundred and four persons, shewn
in the above table as not belonging to the parish who died
therein, and to include the deaths of the three hundred and
seventy seven parishioners who died in the various public institutions
of the Metropolis and elsewhere, by which method a
total corrected mortality of two thousand five hundred and
seventy seven would be arrived at; equal to a death rate of 15•6
per thousand per annum. This may be contrasted with the
Metropolitan death rate of 17•8 per thousand, during the year
1894, the deaths which took place within the boundaries of the
parish, including all non-parishioners dying in the Union
firmary and elsewhere, are shewn in Table A. of mortality, and
may be thus summarised.
Deaths occurring outside the parish, of persons belonging thereto:
| Union Workhouse, Wandsworth | 8 |
| General and Special Hospitals | 225 |
| Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospitals | 90 |
| County and other Lunatic Asylums | 31 |
| Elsewhere (including River Thames) | 23 |
| Total | 377 |
By a singular coincidence these numbers, as well as those
in the preceding table, come to the same totals as in the year
1893.