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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 1923
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1923
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Summary of Statistics, 1923
1. General.
Area of Borough.
(Including land and inland water) acres 2,163
(Excluding water) acres 2,139-9
Population—
(Census, 1921) 167,739
(Registrar-General's estimate, mid-year, 1923) 170,600
Structurally separate occupied dwellings (Census,
1921) 27,191
Rateable value £1,033,153
Sum represented by a penny rate £4,235
2. Extracts i-rom Vital Statistics of the Year.
Births—
(Males, 1,759 ; females, 1,675) 3,434
Legitimate Births 3,319
Illegitimate Births 115
Birth-rate 20-1
Deaths—
(Males, 930 ; females, 909) 1,839
Death-rate 10.8
Number of women dying in or in consequence of
child-birth:—
From sepsis —
Other causes 10
Death rate of Infants under 1 year per 1,000
births—
Legitimate 46.7
Illegitimate 130.4
49.5
Deaths from Measles (all ages) 24
„ Whooping Cough (all ages) 16
„ Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) 26
Census, 1911—
Population 167,743
Number of inhabited houses 24,321