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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 1904
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1904
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Summary of Vital Statistics for 1904.
Area of Borough (excluding water) 2,13.9 acres.
Population (Census 1901) 168,907
„ Estimated to middle of 1904 175,465
Density 81.8 persons per acre
Inhabited Houses (Census 1901) 23,462
Marriages 1,465
Births 4,849
Birth-rate 27.5
Deaths 2,543
Death=rate 14.4
Infantile Mortality 147 per 1,000 births.