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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Battersea 1900
Report upon the public health & sanitary condition of Battersea during the year1900
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Deaths and Death-Rates (contd.)
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TABLE E.
Total Tenements and Tenements of less than Five Rooms, distinguishing those occupied by various numbers of persons, in the metropolitan borough of battersea.
| Metropolitan Borough of Battersea. | Rooms in Tenement. | Tenements of less than five rooms. | Persons per Tenement. | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 or more. | |||
| 1 | 3,413 | 1,613 | 1,011 | 533 | 193 | 48 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | |
| Total Tenements 38,987 | 2 | 5,887 | 482 | 1,768 | 1,424 | 1,054 | 600 | 331 | 157 | 60 | 9 | 2 | — | — |
| Tenements of less than five rooms, 24,089 | 3 | 7.934 | 231 | 1,827 | 1.973 | 1,529 | 1,021 | 625 | 398 | 211 | 77 | 31 | 9 | 2 |
| 4 | 6,855 | 75 | 701 | 1,243 | 1,359 | 1,133 | 905 | 699 | 384 | 212 | 93 | 42 | 9 | |
It will be seen from the above table that two hundred and
ninety-three of the deaths registered related to "non-residents,"
and, therefore, to arrive at a correct figure as to the mortality
of Battersea "residents," it is necessary to eliminate that
number from the statistics and include those deaths of
"residents" which have occurred during the year in other
parts of the Metropolis outside Battersea, numbering three
hundred and twenty and producing a corrected total of
two thousand nine hundred and seventy-eight. The corrected
death-rate is thus equal to 16-7 per 1,000 of the population.
The localities in which the deaths of "residents" registered
in other parts of the Metropolis occurred are here set out : —