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Battersea 1935
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]
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Vital Statistics.
The Registrar-General's estimate of the mid-year population
of Battersea (1935) was 148,200 as compared with 150,870 in
1934. The population of Battersea at the Census taken in April,
1931, was 159,552, and the Registrar-General's estimate for 1935
therefore indicates a decrease of 11,352 (or 7 percent.) since the
Census, and 2,670 during 1934-5.
The Registrar-General's estimate of the mid-year population
of the Borough (148,200) has been adopted for the purpose of the
statistics contained in this report.
The estimated mid-year population based upon the Registrar-General'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:—
| Wards. | |||||
| 1. Nine Elms | 407 | 11,721 | 11,929 | 23,650 | 58.1 |
| 2. Park | 316 | 7,399 | 8,297 | 15,696 | 49.7 |
| 3. Latchmere | 182 | 8,143 | 8,941 | 17,084 | 93.9 |
| 5. Church | 171 | 7,693 | 7,870 | 15,563 | 91.0 |
| North Battersea | 1,076 | 34,956 | 37,037 | 71,993 | 66.9 |
| 4. Shaftesbury | 140 | 6,308 | 6,797 | 13,105 | 93.6 |
| 6. Winstanlev | 126 | 8,815 | 9,007 | 17,822 | 141.4 |
| 7. St. John | 117 | 3,474 | 4,476 | 7,950 | 67.9 |
| 8. Bolingbroke | 205 | 7,781 | 9,385 | 17,166 | 83.7 |
| 9. Broomwood | 499 | 8,799 | 11,365 | 20,164 | 40.4 |
| South Battersea | 1,087 | 35,177 | 41,030 | 76,207 | 70.1 |
| Borough | 2,163 | 70,133 | 78,067 | 148,200 | 68.5 |
BIRTHS.
The number of live births registered in the Borough during
1935 was 2,876 (1,431 males, 1,445 females), an excess of 14 females.
Of this number 1,113 were transferred out, the permanent residence
of the parents being outside the Borough, and 341, registered outside
the Borough, were transferred in, giving on balance a total of
2,104 births (1,048 male, 1,056 female) relating to Battersea residents,
and a corrected (live) birth-rate of 14.2 per 1,000 of the
population. This is a decrease of 0.1 on that of 1934, and the birthrate
is the lowest so far recorded in Battersea.
The tables on the next two pages give the distribution of the
births and the birth-rate per 1,000 of the population in the subdistricts
and in the wards for the year 1935, and figures relating
to the previous decennium 1925-34:—
* Births, deaths, etc., occurring in St. James's Hospital Sub-district (situate
within Broorawood Ward) are allocated to the District in which the
patient ordinarily resides.