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To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Metropolitan Borough of Battersea.
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I present herewith my report upon the Health and Sanitary
conditions of the Borough during the year 1944.
In accordance with the instructions of the Ministry of Health,
the report is an abridged one and is mainly a statistical review.
I have the honour to be,
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
G. MACDONALD,
Medical Officer of Health.
Principle Figures for 1944.
Area of Borough acres 2,163
Pulation (Registrar-General's mid-year estimate) 85,380
Structurally separate occupied dwellings 25,570
Rateable value—£1,082,040. Sum produced by 1d. rate £3,988
Births— (li ve 1,626, still 40) 1,666
Liv e birth rate 19.04
Deaths—1,510. Death rate 17.69
Maternal deaths—2. Maternal death rate 1.22
Infant deaths—81. Infant mortality rate 49.82