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Battersea 1940
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]
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C4386
BAT 39
Metropolitan Borough of Battersea.
ABRIDGED REPORT on the
HEALTH of the BOROUGH
in 1940 by
G. Macdonald, M.A., M.B., D.P.H,,
Medical Officer of Health.
Principal Figures for 1940.
| Principal Figures for 1940. | |
| Area of Borough acres | 2,163 |
| Population (Registrar-General's mid-year estimate) | 108,380 |
| Structurally separate occupied dwellings | 27,580 |
| Rateable value—£1,151,435. Sum produced by 1d. rate | £4.415 |
| Births—(live 1,794, still 47) | 1,841 |
| Live birth rate | 16.55 |
| Deaths—1,992. Death rate | 18.38 |
| Maternal deaths—3. Maternal death rate | 1.77 |
| Infant deaths—68. Infant mortality rate | 41.29 |