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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 1911
[Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1911]
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Summary of Vital Statistics for 1911.
Area of Borough (excluding water) 2,1399 acres
Population (Census 1901) 168,907
( „ 1911) 167,793
„ Estimated to middle of 1911 167,765
Density 78.4 persons per acre
Inhabited Houses (Census 1901) 23,462
Marriages 1,281
Births 4,381
Birth-rate 26.1
Deaths 2,404
Death-rate 14.3
Infantile Mortality 124 per 1,000 births