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Battersea 1962

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]

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Vital Statistics.
For the purpose of standardisation, the Registrar-General's area
comparability factors, which make allowance for the way in which the
sex and age distribution of the local population differs from that or
England and Wales as a whole, have been applied to the rates for
births and deaths. The factor for births is 0.99, and for deaths 0.92.
POPULATION.
The Registrar-General's estimate of the mid-year home population
of Battersea was 104,020, which shows a decrease of 960 on the previous
estimated figure of 104,980 in 1961. This estimate has been adopted
for the purpose of the statistics contained in this Report.
During the year, the Registrar-General published a report on the
Census taken in April, 1961." The population of the Borough at the
Census was 105,870 (50,620 males and 55,250 females, a proportion of
100 males to 109 females). This figure shows a decrease of 11,270 (or
9.6 per cent.) on the population at the previous Census taken in April,
1951,when it was 117,140 (54,852 males and 62,288 females). The
following tables show a comparison between various groupings of the
population figures published in that report and those obtained at the
Census in 1951.

Population in Wards and Districts, Showing Sexes, and Density per Acre, for 1951 and 1961.

WardsPersonsVariationMalesFemalesDensity— persons per acre
19511961195119611951196119511961
No.1, Nine Elms7,1377,159+ 223,5523,5813,5853,57822.823.0
No.2, Park7,9046,929— 9753,6153,2634,2893,66626.222.9
No.3, Newtown6,2315,896— 3353,0532,9003,1782,99693.092.1
No 4, Latchmere8,9756,577—2,3984,2863,1594,6893,41871.253.9
No.5, Queenstown9,3598,141—1,2184,5053,9814,8544,16080.067.8
No.9, Church8,2346,592—1,6423,8813,2284,3533,36474.959.9
No.10, Vicarage7,0986,337— 7613,4573,0943,6413,24370.362.7
No,11, Win stan ley8,3427,449— 8934,0463,6534,2963,79698.186.6
North Battersea63,28055,080—8,200 (12.9%)30,39526,85932,88528,22151.845.3
No. 6, Shaftesbury7,4116,865— 5463,4493,2653,9623,60061.854.5
No, 7' Stormont7,0396,680— 3593,2343,1683,8053,51299. 196.8
No. 8, Lavender5,0394,957— 822,3552 3572 6842 60095.191.8
No. 12, St. John8,0497,523— 5263,7653,5234,2844,00067.163.8
No.13, Bolingbroke4,3034,068— 2351,9822,0072,3212,06154.551.5
No. 14, Thornton5,6895,170— 5192,4582,3513,2312,81941 .537.7
No, 15, Broomwood4,8524,376— 4762,2062,0292,6462,34764.758.3
No.16,Nightingale11,47811,151— 3275,0085,0616,4706,09040.038.6 53.6
South Battersea 53,86050,790—3,070 (5.7%)24,45723,76129,40327,02957.2
BOROUGH117,140105,870—11,270 (9.6%)54,85250,62062,28855,25054.248.9