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Of the deaths under one year, two hundred and ninety-eight
were from premature birth, malformation, or low vitality at birth,
nearly one-third of the total number of deaths recorded at that
age.
All deaths under five years, the infantile period of life, were
equal to forty-eight per cent, of the total deaths. This is an
improvement which has been maintained during recent years;
formerly sixty per cent, of the total deaths were usually under
five years, showing an immense saving of infantile life, which can
only be ascribed to the improved sanitation which has prevailed
in this parish for many years.
At the other extreme of life, three hundred and sixty-two
persons died above sixty-five years of age, including the deaths of
aged parishioners in the Union Infirmary, where the deaths of one
hundred aged non-parishioners also took place. In public institutions
outside the parish twenty-six Battersea people died above
sixty-five years, making a total of three hundred and eighty-eight
parishioners dying at this advanced age.
Table B. This, the second table prescribed by the Local
Government Board, contains particulars of the population,
births, notifications of infectious disease in the several localities
and various public institutions (themselves treated as separate
localities), situated within the parish, and the cases of infectious
disease removed from their homes in these several localities for
treatment in the Metropolitan Asylums Board isolation hospitals.
The cases of erysipelas are mostly removed to the Infirmary of
the Wandsworth and Clapham Union, situated on St. John's Hill,
within the parish, as also cases of puerperal fever, other hospitals
not providing accommodation for these two diseases.
It will be observed that the several localities and institutions
have populations assigned to them. The out-door districts of
East and West Battersea have populations based upon the
ascertained increase of population during the last inter-censal
period, while the institutions have the census populations of 1896
given.