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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 1907
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1907
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Summary of Vital Statistics for 1907.
Area of Borough (excluding water) 2,139.9 acres.
Population (Census 1901) 168,907
„ Estimated to middle of 1907 181,736
Density 84.9 persons per acre.
Inhabited Houses (Census 1901) 23,462
Marriages 1,427
Births 4,574
Birth-rate 25.1
Deaths 2,406
Death-rate 13.2
Infantile Mortality 115 per 1,000 births.