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Battersea 1939
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]
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BAT 32
Metropolitan Borough of Battersea.
ABRIDGED REPORT on the
HEALTH of the BOROUGH
in 1939 by
G. Macdonald, M.A., M.B., D.P.H.,
Medical Officer of Health.
Principal Figures for 1939.
Area of Borough acres 2,163
Population (Registrar-General's ???24??? estimate)—
For calculating birth-rate 139,200
„ „ death rate 131,600
Structurally separate occupied dwellings 28,225
Rateable value—£1,170,852. Sum produced by 1d. rate £4,720
Births—(live 2,003, still 40) 2,043
Live birth rate 14.39
Deaths—1,687. Death rate 12.8
Maternal deaths—4. Maternal death rate 2.03
Infant deaths—119 Infant mortality rate 61.66