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7
Notification of Births.
During 1947 the number of notifications of live births received
belonging to the Borough was 2,561. The corrected number of
Battersea births registered during the year was 2,663. The proportion
of notified to registered births was, therefore, 96.2 per cent.
Notifications of 834 live births of Battersea children occurring
outside the Borough were received from the districts in which the
births occurred, these cases being included in the total of 2,561 above.
Sixty-five still-births were notified under the provisions of the
Public Health (London) Act, 1936, during the year, including 20 cases
occurring outside the Borough, the number notified being 87.8 per cent.
of the total Battersea still-births registered.
The homes from which births are notified are visited and revisited
by the Council's official health visitors or the health visitors of the
voluntary organisation included in the Council's Maternity and Child
Welfare scheme.

DEATHS.
The number of deaths registered in the Borough during 1947 was
1,993. Of these 1,160 were deaths of non-residents and were trans-
ferred to the districts in which the persons ordinarily resided. There
were on the other hand, 613 deaths of Battersea residents registered
outside the Borough. The total (corrected) number of deaths belonging
to the Borough was 1,446 (males 731, females 715). This gives a
recorded death rate of 12.58 compared with 12.8 for London, and
12.0 for England and Wales.