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This table shews that there were, at the date of the 1896 census,
22,421 inhabited houses in the parish, four hundred and ninetyfive
empty, two hundred and sixty-three used for business
purposes only and not inhabited at night, and one hundred and
seventy-two building. It may be safely assumed that most of the
empty houses have since been occupied, as well as the houses
which were then building, with the exception of some of the
flats recently erected, there being a demand for houses in Battersea
at present exceeding that of any previous period.
The persons were eighty thousand eight hundred and twentytwo
males; eighty-four thousand two hundred and ninety-three
females, and a total population of one hundred and sixty-five
thousand one hundred and fifteen. As the census of eighteen
hundred and ninety-one shewed a population of one hundred and
fifty thousand, four hundred and fifty eight, it follows that the
increase was fourteen thousand, six hundred and fifty seven, or
an average increase of two thousand, nine hundred and thirty-one
per annum.
It will be necessary, in order to calculate the birth, death
and other rates to arrive at the mean or average population of the
year 1897, which is obtained by adding a proportionate number,
one fourth of the year's increase of population, so as to shew
the population estimated to exist on the middle day of the year.
The estimated mean population of the parish for 1897 was
168,778, and it is upon this number that the birth and death rates
which follow are calculated. Details as to the Metropolis are
added for the purpose of comparison.
The estimated mean population of London for 1897 was
4,463,169, the number of births registered during the year was
133,618 and the consequent birth rate 30 per thousand. The
number of births registered in Battersea in 1897 was 5,266 giving
a birth rate of 31.2 per thousand or 1.2 per thousand above that
for the Metropolis.