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Wards there was a marked increase in the rate, Winstanley,
Park, Nine Elms and Latchmere showing the highest figures.
The first quarter of the year was notable for the large number of
deaths registered, due, no doubt, to the effect of unfavourable
weather influences, predisposing to a high mortality from
diseases of the respiratory system. The increased death-rate was,
however, general in London and in England and Wales, and the
causes responsible were no doubt similar. On the whole, it may
be said that the mortality statistics of the Borough for 1913 show
that the improvement which has been such a marked feature of
recent years has been maintained.
The position which the Borough occupies during 1913 in
the Registrar-General's corrected returns amongst the twentynine
Metropolitan, Cities and Boroughs is satisfactory. There are
fifteen with a higher general death-rate and only eleven have a
lower death-rate than Battersea.
Seven Boroughs have a higher zymotic death-rate and nine
a higher infantile mortality rate. Taking the ten south Metropolitan
Boroughs, Lewisham and Wandsworth have the lowest
general death-rate (10.6), and Bermondsey the highest (17.9);
only four of the ten southern Boroughs have a lower death-rate
than Battersea.
London, as a whole, has a birth-rate of 24.5, a corrected
zymotic (death) rate of 1.4 per 1,000, and an infantile mortality
(corrected) rate of 105 per 1,000 births. For England and Wales
the figures are : birth-rate, 23.9; infantile mortality, 109.

Deaths in Public Institutions.
During the year 1913 the deaths of Battersea residents occurring
in public institutions numbered 938, as compared with 795
in 1912. Of this number 413 occurred within and 525 outside
the Borough. 378 occurred in workhouses or union infirmaries,
as against 380 in 1912 and 415 in 1911: