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Vital Statistics.
The revised report of the Registrar-General upon the Census
taken on the 26/27th April, 1931, gives the population of Battersea
at that date as 159,552, compared with 167,739 at the Census of
1921, showing a decrease of 8,187.
Under the powers conferred by the Local Government Act,
1929, the Council, with the sanction of the Ministry of Health,
altered the Registration sub-districts into which the Borough was
hitherto divided.
The new Sub-Districts fixed by the Council on 24th February,
1932, are as follows:—
(I.) North Battersea—comprising Nine Elms, Park, Latchmere
and Church Wards. (This area coincides with the North
Battersea Parliamentary Division.)
(II.) South Battersea—comprising Shaftesbury, Winstanley,
St. John and Bolingbroke Wards, together with the
Broomwood Ward, less St. James's Hospital. (This area,
with the addition of St. James's Hospital, coincides with
the South Battersea Parliamentary Division.)
(III.) St. James's Hospital.*
The new arrangement came into force on the 1st April, 1932,
but for purposes of comparison the statistics are shown as if the
arrangement had commenced on the 1st January, 1932.
The Registrar-General's estimate of the mid-year population
of the Borough (1932) was 157,000.
The estimated mid-year population 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:—
* Births, deaths, etc., occurring in St. James's Hospital are allocated to
the District in which the patient resides.