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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 1925
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1925
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Summary of Statistics, 1925
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
1925) 172,100
Structurally separate occupied dwellings
(Census, 1921) 27,191
Rateable value £1,044,020
Sum represented by a penny rate £4,293
2. Extracts from Vital Statistics of the Year.
Births—
(Males,1677; females, 1,507) 3,184
Legitimate births 3,078
Illegitimate „ 106
Birth-rate 18∙5
Deaths—
(Males, 911, females, 894) 1,805
Death-rate 10∙5
Number of women dying in or in consequence of
childbirth—
From sepsis 3
Other causes 3
Death-rate of infants under 1 year per 1,000 births.
Legitimate 56∙5
Illegitimate 113∙2
58∙4
Deaths from Measles (all ages) 4
,, Whooping-cough (all ages) 20
,, Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) 16
Census, 1911—
Population 167,743
Number of inhabited houses 24,321