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It is satisfactory to be able to record the very low general
death-rate for the year 1912, which is probably the lowest rate
ever recorded in the Old Parish or Borough of Battersea.
When it is remembered that the rate is calculated on the recent
Census figures, which show that the estimated population of the
Borough for the years immediately preceding the Census figures
was considerably overstated and that the death-rate was consequently
seriously understated, the mortality-rate for the Borough
in 1912 is the more noteworthy and gratifying.
It is interesting to note the position which the Borough takes
during 1912 in the Registrar-General's corrected returns amongst
the twenty-nine Metropolitan Cities and Boroughs. There are
twenty-one Boroughs with a higher general death-rate, and only
six of the twenty-nine have a lower death-rate than Battersea.
Twenty Boroughs have a higher zymotic death-rate and twentyone
a higher infant mortality rate Taking the ten South Metropolitan
Boroughs, Lewi sham has the lowest general death-rate
(10 2), and Bermondsey and Southwark the highest (16 8); only
three of the ten Southern Boroughs having a lower death-rate than
Battersea.
London as a whole has a birth-rate of 24.5, a corrected zymotic
(death) rate of 1.1 per 1,000, and an infantile mortality (corrected)
rate of 91 per 1,000 births. For England and Wales the figures
are, birth-rate 238, infantile mortality 95.