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Battersea 1907
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1907
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Births, Marriages and Deaths.
Population.
The population of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea
(created in November, 1900, under the provisions of the London
Government Act, 1899, and formed from the old Parish of
Battersea, after some rearrangement between the two districts
of Wandsworth and Battersea, to define the boundary line), as
estimated by the Registrar-General, at the middle of 1907, was
181,736, made up as follows:—
East Battersea 75,740
North-West Battersea 49,481
South-West Battersea 56,515
181,736
The estimate of the Registrar-General is based on the
assumption that the rate of increase of population during the
last intercensal period was maintained during the subsequent
years. It is probably somewhat too high, but it has been
adopted in this report, so that the Battersea statistics may be
comparable with those of other districts.
The numbers of the population of each sex, and at various ages (at the Census, 1901) was as follows:—
| Totals at all ages. | Under 5. | 5—14. | 15—19. | 20—49. | 50—75. | Above 75. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Males | 81,749 | 10,140 | 17,842 | 7,911 | 39,601 | 5,782 | 473 |
| Females | 85,158 | 10,207 | 17,974 | 8,239 | 42,646 | 7,107 | 985 |
| 168,907 | 20,347 | 35,816 | 16,150 | 82,247 | 12,889 | 1,458 |
The character and status of the population of Battersea
may be said in the main to be industrial. Its proximity to
the West End makes it a convenient residential district for the
large number of workers who are employed in that quarter;
and there are also a large number of railway employees residing