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6
Vital Statistics.
The Registrar-General's estimate of the mid-year home
population of Battersea was 117,000, which shows a decrease of
700 on the comparable figure for 1950 (viz. 117,700).
The population of the Borough as estimated in the Registrar-
General's preliminary report of the census taken in April, 1951,
was 117,130 (54,885 males and 62,245 females, a proportion of
100 males to 113 females). This figure shows a decrease of
42,422 (or 26.6 per cent.) on the population at the previous census
taken in April, 1931, when it was estimated as 159,552 (75,506
males and 84,046 females).
The Registrar-General's estimate of the mid-year home population
of the Borough (117,000) has been adopted for the purpose
of the statistics contained in this report.
BIRTHS.
The number of live births registered in the Borough during
1951 was 1,637 (866 male, 771 female). Of this number 710 were
transferred out, the permanent residence of the parents being
outside the Borough, and 959 registered outside the Borough were
transferred in, giving on balance a total of 1,886 births (970 male,
916 female, an excess of 54 males) relating to Battersea residents,
and a live birth rate of 16.12 per 1,000 of the population. This
is a decrease of 0.01 on that of 1950.
Of the Battersea births (927 live and 18 still) which occurred
within the Borough, 568 were “domiciliary births.”
Illegitimate births numbered 117 or 7.1 per cent, of the live
births.
The live birth rate was 17.8 for the County of London, and
15.5 for England and Wales.
Still-Births.
The registration of still-births is made compulsory by the
Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1926.
During 1951 there were 49 still-births registered in Battersea,
of which 18 were of Battersea parents. 19 still-births occurring
outside the Borough were registered as belonging to Battersea,
making 37 in all, representing a still-birth rate of 19.24 per 1,000
births (live and still) registered. Of the 37 still-births 5 (13.5
per cent.) were registered as illegitimate.
The number of Battersea still-births registered, and the stillbirth
rates from 1942 to 1951 were as under: —
No. Rate No. Rate
1942 43 26.7 1948 46 20.1
1943 36 21.6 1949 43 20.8
1944 40 24.0 1950 53 27.2
1945 38 23.3 1951 37 19.2
1946 59 22.7 Mean
1947 74 27.0 1942-51 47 23.3