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Battersea 1924
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 |