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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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Table showing Birth-rates, Death-rates and Infant Mortality-rates in the 29 Metropolitan Cities and Boroughs for the year 1925.
| Births per 1,000 Population. | Deaths per 1,000 Population. | Infant Mortality per 1,000 Births. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Shoreditch | 24.7 | Hampstead | 10.1 | Wandsworth | 53 |
| 2. Poplar | 22.7 | Lewisham | 10.2 | Woolwich | 54 |
| 3. Bermondsey | 22.7 | Wandsworth | 10.4 | Hampstead | 55 |
| 4. Finsbury | 22.6 | Battersea | 10.5 | Lewisham | 56 |
| 5. Bethnal Green | 22.1 | Fulham | 10.6 | Battersea | 58 |
| 6. Southwark | 21.4 | Woolwich | 10.7 | Finsbury | 59 |
| 7. Stepney | 21.0 | Camberwell | 11.0 | City of London | 60 |
| 8. Islington | 19.4 | City of London | 11.0 | St. Marylebone | 60 |
| 9. Deptford | 18.9 | Greenwich | 11.2 | Lambeth | 62 |
| 10. Greenwich | 18.8 | Hackney | 11.4 | Deptford | 62 |
| 11. Battersea | 18.5 | S. Newington | 11.6 | Islington | 63 |
| 12. St. Pancras | 18.1 | Poplar | 11 .7 | S. Newington | 63 |
| 13. Hackney | 18.0 | St. Marylebone | 11.7 | Camberwell | 64 |
| 14. Lambeth | 17.9 | Paddington | 11.8 | Hackney | 64 |
| 15. Woolwich | 17.9 | Hammersmith | 11.9 | Holborn | 65 |
| 16. Camberwell | 17.8 | Deptford | 11.9 | Hammersmith | 66 |
| 17. Hammersmith | 17.5 | Bethnal Green | 12.0 | Chelsea | 66 |
| 18. Fulham | 17.2 | City of West-minster | 12.1 | City of West-minster | 69 |
| 19. Paddington | 16.0 | Stepney | 12.1 | Greenwich | 69 |
| 20. Kensington | 15.9 | Lambeth | 12.2 | St. Pancras | 71 |
| 21. Lewisham | 15.7 | Islington | 12.2 | Paddington | 73 |
| 22. Stoke Newington | 15.5 | Holborn | 12.3 | Stepney | 75 |
| 23. Chelsea | 14.5 | Bermondsey | 12.6 | Bermondsey | 75 |
| 24. Wandsworth | 14.4 | St. Pancras | 12.6 | Fulham | 75 |
| 25. St. Marylebone | 14.2 | Kensington | 12.9 | Poplar | 75 |
| 26. Hampstead | 12.2 | Southwark | 13.1 | Southwark | 77 |
| 27. Holborn | 12.2 | Chelsea | 13.3 | Kensington | 80 |
| 28. City of West-minster | 10.7 | Shoreditch | 13.3 | Bethnal Green | 80 |
| 29. City of London | 7.4 | Finsbury | 13.6 | Shoreditch | 88 |
| London County | 18.0 | ... ... | 11.7 | ... ... | 67 |
| England and Wales | 18.3 | ... ... | 12.2 | ... ... | 75 |
Notification of Births Act.
During 1925 the number of notifications of live births received
was 3,046. The corrected number of births registered in Battersea
was 3,184. The proportion of notified to registered births was 95.7
per cent.
The number of still-births notified during the year was 87 or
2-7 per cent. of the corrected total births.
213 births of infants born outside the Borough, but children
of Battersea residents, were notified from the districts in which these
births occurred.
Notified births are visited and re-visited by the Council's
official Health Visitors and the voluntary organizations linked up
with the Council's Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme.