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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 1902
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1903
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Summary of Vital Statistics for 1903.
Area of Borough (excluding water) 2,139. 9 acres.
Population (Census 1901) 168,907
„ Estimated to middle of 1903 173,422
Density 81 persons per acre.
Inhabited Houses (Census 1901) 23,462
Marriages 1,442
Births 4,973
Birth-rate 28.6
Deaths 2,476
Death-rate 14.2
Infantile Mortality 135 per 1,000 births.