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Of the deaths under one year, two hundred and eighty-two
were from premature birth, malformation, or low vitality at birth,
a little more than 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-four per cent. of the total deaths. This is an
improvement even upon that which has been maintained during
recent years; formerly sixty per cent. of the total deaths were
under five years of age, 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 ninety-three
persons died above sixty-five years of age, including the deaths of
aged parishioners in the Union Infirmary, where the deaths
of seventy-six aged non-parishioners also took place.
In public institutions, &c., outside the parish thirty Battersea
people died above sixty-five years, making a total of four
hundred and twenty-three 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.