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Battersea 1910
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1910
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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 to the middle of 1910, was 188,222, made up as
follows:—
East Battersea 78,024
North-West Battersea 49,388
South-West Battersea 60,810
188,222
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 will
probably be found that when the new Census figures are to hand
some time next year (1911) that this estimate is 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 age periods (at the Census of 1901) were 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 |
| 166,907 | 20,347 | 35,816 | 16,150 | 82,247 | 12,889 | 1,458 |
Births.
The total number of births belonging to the Borough of Battersea
during 1910 was 4,489. Of the total births 2,304 were males
and 2,185 females, showing an excess of 119 males. The number of
births showed an increase of 39 over that of 1909, but was 321 below
the decennial average 1900-1909, and 786 less than the number of
births recorded in the old Parish of Battersea in 1884, when the
* The Registrar General's figures (just published) are 167,793, showing a
decrease of 0.66 per cent, as compared with the Census figures for 1901.