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The deaths registered in London during 1896 numbered
eigthy-three thousand five hundred and eleven, with a consequent
death rate of 18.6 per thousand. The number of deaths registered
in Battersea during the year was two thousand nine hundred
and forty-one, equal to a death-rate of 17.7 per thousand ; but if
this be corrected by deleting the deaths of two hundred and
sixty-six non-parishioners, and adding the deaths of three hundred
and nineteen Battersea residents in outlying institutions of the
Metropolis, the total deaths would be raised to two thousand
nine hundred and ninety-four, giving on the mean population for
1896 a corrected death-rate of 18.0 per thousand.
Table A. This table is compiled in all sanitary districts
under the express direction of the Local Government Board, for
the purpose of securing uniformity of tabulation in all parts of
the country, of the important particulars contained therein. It
is at the same time expressly stated that the Medical Officer of
Health of any district is at liberty, in addition, to continue to use
any other form of tabulation which, in his opinion, illustrates
more fully the sanitary condition of the district for which he acts.
For purposes of comparison with the vital statistics of the past
forty years, since the year 1856, other tables which have been
employed in this parish are also given herewith, and will be found
denoted by numbers, those of the Local Government Board being
denoted by the letters A. and B.
In Table A. will be found particulars of mortality in the
various Registrar.s districts and public institutions which are also
treated as separate districts. They comprise the Registrar.s
districts of East and West Battersea, and the following public
institutions, situated within the parish, viz.:—Wandsworth and
Clapham Union Infirmary, Bolingbroke Hospital, Westminster
Union Schools, Emanuel School, and the Masonic School
for Girls.
The broad grouping of ages is under and above five years of
age, so as to clearly define the mortality of each of these periods