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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 1908

Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1908

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Table: In the following table is shown the number of deaths and the death rate in the nine wards into which the Borough is divided: —

In the following table is shown the number of deaths and the death rate in the nine wards into which the Borough is divided: —

Ward.Population Estimated to middle of 1908.Number of Deaths.Death Rates.
Nine Elms31,51142013.3
Park19,83424212.2
Latchmere22,44030113.4
Shaftesbury17,49620411.6
Church21,33330214.1
Winstanley22,44429413.0
St. John9,02410311.4
Bolingbroke20,40923111.3
Broomwood19,3821759.0

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In the above table it will be seen that Church Ward has the
highest and Broomwood Ward the lowest general death rate, and,
on comparing with the table on page 45, it will be seen that
Church Ward has the highest and St. John's Ward the lowest
zymotic death rate.
It is only by subdividing the rates up in this way that it is
possible to see where the (sanitarily) unsatisfactory parts of the
Borough are situated, and where, consequently, most care and
attention are still required at the hands of the Borough Council.
A comparison of the Ward death rates during 1907* and 1908
will be found of interest. In all the poorer Wards of the Borough
a decrease has been recorded, while, on the other hand, with one
exception (Broomwood) the three Upper Wards, in which the
standard of living is, on the whole, much higher, show an
increase.
* Vide Annual Report, 1907.
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