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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 1913

Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1913

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Summary of Vital Statistics for 1913.
Area of Borough (excluding water) 2,139.9 acres
Population (Census 1901) 168,907
„ ( „ 1911) 167,793
,, (Estimated to middle of 1913) 167,464
Density 78.2 persons per acre
Inhabited Houses (Census 1911) 22,078
Marriages 1,282
Births 4,240
Birth-rate 25.3
Deaths 2,365
Death-rate 14.1
Infantile Mortality 111 per 1,000 births