Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1924
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Summary of Statistics, 1924
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, 1924) | 171,000 |
Structurally separate occupied dwellings (Census, 1921) | 27,191 |
Rateable value | £1,041,011 |
Sum represented by a penny rate | £4,274 |
2. Extracts from Vital Statistics of the Year. | |
(Males, 1,658; females, 1,481) | 3,139 |
Legitimate Births | 3,031 |
Illegitimate Births | 108 |
18.4 | |
(Males, 989 ; females, 1029) | 2,018 |
11.8 | |
Number of women dying in or in consequence of child-birth:— | |
From sepsis | 4 |
Other causes | 5 |
Death rate of Infants under 1 year per 1,000 births- | |
Legitimate 59.4 | |
Illegitimate 148.1 | |
62.4 | |
Deaths from Measles (all ages) | 51 |
,, Whooping Cough (all ages) | 17 |
„ Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) | 23 |
Census, 1911—
Population | 167,743 |
Number of inhabited houses | 24,321 |