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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 1926
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1926
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Summary of Statistics, 1926.
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
1926) 171,900
Structurally separate occupied dwellings
(Census, 1921) 27,191
Rateable value £1,121,737
Sum represented by a penny rate £4,642
2. Extracts from Vital Statistics of the Year.
Births—
(Males,1567; females, 1,402) 2,969
Legitimate births (1,506 males, 1,352 females) 2,858
Illegitimate „ (61 males, 50 females) 111
Birth-rate 17.3
Deaths—
(Males, 994, females, 966) 1,960
Death-rate 11.4
Number of women dying in or in consequence of
childbirth—
From sepsis 3
Other causes 7
Death-rate of infants under 1 year per 1,000 births.
Legitimate 57.7
Illegitimate 162.2
61.6
Deaths from Measles (all ages) 43
„ Whooping-cough (all ages) 13
„ Diarrhœa (under 2 years of age) 28
Census, 1911—
Population 167,743
Number of inhabited houses 24,321