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giving an uncorrected death rate of 15.5 per thousand. If this
be corrected by deleting the deaths of two hundred and seventy
non-parishioners which took place in the parish, viz.:—Wandsworth
and Clapham Union Infirmary, two hundred and thirtynine,
Bolingbroke Hospital, eleven, the Westminster Schools,
one and elsewhere nineteen, and adding three hundred and eightyseven
deaths of Battersea parishioners which took place in the
various public institutions, a total mortality of Battersea parishioners
of two thousand seven hundred and thirty-seven will result,
giving a corrected death-rate of 16.2 per thousand per annum.
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-one 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, and the Westminster
Union Schools.
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
of life, more especially the infantile ages under five, as the