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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 1905
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1905
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Summary of Vital Statistics for 1905.
Area of Borough (excluding water) 2,139 9 acres.
Population (Census 1901) 168,907
„ Estimated to middle of 1905 177,532
Density 82.9 persons per acre.
Inhabited Houses (Census 1901) 23 462
Marriages 1,412
Births 4,843
Birth-rate 27.3
Deaths 2,561
Death=rate 14.4
Infantile Mortality 131 per 1,000 births.