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Table I. This table contains details of the deaths of
Battersea parishioners in Metropolitan public institutions without
the parish. The disease from which death ensued, the sex, age,
and particular class of institution are herein indicated, as well as
the localities in which other parishioners lost their lives or were
found dead, which latter require no comment, the causes of
death being set out in the table.
Table I. shews that three hundred and eighty-seven Battersea
parishioners died in outlying public institutions, in addition
to the one hundred and ninety-seven dying in the Union Infirmary,
(vide Table VIII) and eleven in the Bolingbroke Hospital, making
a total number of five hundred and ninety-five deaths in public
institutions. During the year 1896 five hundred and seventy
deaths similarly occurred. .
Tables II. and III., give in tabular form the weekly
returns of the District Registrars of Births and Deaths for East
and West Battersea respectively, and include the deaths of all
persons within the parish and in public institutions, whether
parishioners or not. They shew the incidence of births and
deaths at the various periods of the year, being grouped in
quarters for that purpose, with additional particulars as to
causes of death to be found in Table IV.
It is shown by these tables that the births and deaths exhibited
an unusual uniformity during the several quarters of the year,
the result doubtless of the mild winter and spring, during which
seasons the mortality is frequently considerably in excess of that
of the others.
The particulars of deaths of non-parishioners dying within
the parish will be found in Table IX. and following tables.