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Battersea 1930
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]
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Vital Statistics.
The estimated mid-year population1 based upon the RegistrarGeneral's figures, for the registration Sub-districts and for the nine Wards into which the Borough is divided, is set out in the following Table
| Registration Sub-Districts | E timated Mid-Year Population, 1930. | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Males. | Females. | Total. | |
| East Battersea | 31,962 | 33,818 | 65,780 |
| North-West Battersea | 22,427 | 23,406 | 45,833 |
| South-West Battersea | 21,785 | 27,302 | 49,087 |
| Total | 76,174 | 84,526 | 160,700 |
| Wards. | |||
| No. 1. Nine Elms | 12,632 | 13,009 | 25,641 |
| No. 2. Park | 8,173 | 8,923 | 17,096 |
| No. 3. Latchmere | 8,606 | 9,360 | 17,966 |
| No. 4. Shaftesbury | 7,349 | 7,711 | 15,060 |
| No. 5. Church | 8,613 | 8,754 | 17,367 |
| No. 6. Winstanley | 9,831 | 10,320 | 20,151 |
| No. 7. St. John | 3,546 | 4,820 | 8,366 |
| No. 8. Bolingbroke | 8,373 | 10,163 | 18,536 |
| No. 9. Broomwood | 9,051 | 11,466 | 20,517 |
| Total | 76,174 | 84,526 | 160,700 |
BIRTHS.
The number of births registered in the Borough during 1930
was 2,880 (1,485 males, 1,395 females), an excess of 90 males.
Of this number, 617 were transferred out, the permanent residence
of the parents being outside the Borough, and 389, registered outside
the Borough, were transferred here, giving on balance a total of
2,652 births relating to Battersea residents, and a corrected birth-rate
of 16.5 per 1,000 of the population. This is a slight increase on
that of 1929, when the birth-rate was the lowest recorded in
Battersea with the exception of that of 1918 when it was 16.1.
The preliminary report of the Census taken on the 26/27th April,
1931, issued by the Registrar General, shows the population of Battersea
to be 159,542 as compared with the Census population of 1921, namely
167,739, a reduction of 8,197.