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Births, Marriages and Deaths.
Population.
The population of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea at
the Census taken April, 1911, was 167,793.
The estimated population to the middle of the year 1913,
based upon the results of the last Census and that taken in 1901,
is 167,464.
The estimated population for each of the sub-districts into
which, for registration purposes, the Borough is divided, is as
follows :—
East Battersea 69,657
North-West Battersea 49,043
South-West Battersea 48,764
The natural increase of population by excess of births over
deaths during the year 1913, amounted to 1,875.
The area of the Borough (excluding water) is 2,139.9 acres,
the density of population being 78.2 persons per acre.
Births.
The total number of births belonging to the Borough of
Battersea during 1913 was 4,240. Of the total births, 2,157 were
males and 2,083 females, showing an excess of 74 males. The
births were 15 fewer than in 1912, and were 369 below the
decennial average 1903-1912.

The birth-rate, i.e., the number of births per 1,000 of the
population, was 25.3, which was practically equal to that of 1912,
viz., 25.4. There is, it is to be feared, the same downward
tendency noticeable in the birth-rate to which attention has
specially been drawn in previous annual reports, a decline which