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This year the Local Government Board require a table on
infantile mortality in addition to the four tables hitherto
required in the annual reports of Medical Officers of Health.
The new table contains statistics as to the causes of infantile
deaths at various periods under one year, in the whole sanitary
district and in its sub-divisions. This table will be found on
pages 169-172 of the report.
Senile Mortality.
Five hundred and thirty-seven deaths of Battersea residents
occurred at ages of sixty-five and upwards. The age
distribution of these deaths in the sub-districts is given
below:—
District.
65 and
under 75.
75 and
under 85.
85 and
upwards.
Total
over 65.
East Battersea 106 99 18 223
North-West Battersea 89 44 15 148
South-West Battersea 81 75 10 166
Borough of Battersea 276 218 43 537
The deaths over sixty-five were 434, 445, 404 and 508
in the years 1901, 1902, 1903 and 1904 respectively. The 537
deaths over sixty-five in 1905 were equivalent to 21 per cent, of
the deaths at all ages.
The Vital Statistics of the Latchmere Estate.
At the instance of the Health Committee and with the
consent of the Housing Committee, a census of the Latchmere
Estate was taken in the first week of January, 1906, by the
Officers of the Health Department. The estate consists of
316 workmen's dwellings, which were erected by the Borough
Council in 1903-4, and are occupied by a working-class
population, nearly all the workers being engaged in skilled
occupations. The population living on the estate was found
to number 1,475 persons, whose age and sex distribution was
as follows:—