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Vital Statistics.
The Registrar-General's estimate of the mid-year population
of Battersea (1936) was 145,500 as compared with 148,200 in
1935. The population of Battersea at the Census taken in April,
1931, was 159,552, and the Registrar-General's estimate for 1936
therefore indicates a decrease of 14,052 (or 9 per cent.) since the
Census, and 2,700 during 1935-6.
The Registrar-General's estimate of the mid-year population
of the Borough (145,500) has been adopted for the purpose of the
statistics contained in this report.
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:—
Area.
Acres.
Estimated Mid-Year Population,
1936.
Males.
Females.
Total.
Density
per acre
Wards.
1. Nine Elms
407
11,507
11,712
23,219
57·1
2. Park
316
7,264
8,146
15,410
48·8
3. Latchmere
182
7,995
8,778
16,773
92·2
5. Church
171
7,553
7,726
15,279
89·4
North Battersea
1,076
34,319
36,362
70,681
65·7
4. Shaftesbury
140
6,193
6,673
12,866
91·9
6. Winstanley
126
8,654
8,843
17,497
138·9
7. St. John
117
3,411
4,394
7,805
66·7
8. Bolingbroke
205
7,639
9,215
16,854
82·2
9. Broomwood
499
8,639
11,158
19,797
39·7
South Battersea
1,087
34,536
40,283
74,819
68·8
Borough
2,163
68,855
76,645
145,500
67·3
BIRTHS.
The number of live births registered in the Borough during
1936 was 2,855 (1,452 male, 1,403 female), an excess of 49 males.
Of this number 1,102 were transferred out, the permanent residence
of the parents being outside the Borough, and 375, registered outside
the Boiough, were transferred in, giving on balance a total of
2,128 births (1,062 male, 1,066 female) relating to Battersea residents,
and a corrected (live) birth-rate of 14.6 per 1,000 of the
population. This is an increase of 0.4 on that of 1935, which was
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 1936, and figures relating
to the previous decennium 1926-35 :—
* Births, deaths, etc., occurring in St. James's Hospital Sub-district (situate
within Broomwood Ward) are allocated to the District in which the
patient ordinarily resides.