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BATTERSEA.
The total number of deaths from disease and other
causes registered in this sub-district during the year 1862,
numbered 491; 250 males and 241 females—being 14
less than in the previous year.
Of the 491 deaths enumerated in the appended table,
109 occurred in the workhouse situated in this sub-district,
the infirmary of which continues to be the recipient
of a large number both of acute and chronic cases befalling
the poor in the seven parishes comprising the Wandsworth
and Clapham Union. A large proportion of the
cases admitted are of persons in an exhausted and hopeless
condition.
Of the 109 deaths registered as having taken place in
the workhouse, 80 were of individuals in no way connected
with the parish of Battersea. Deducting, then,
these deaths from the gross number it would reduce the
number proper to the parish to 411, which, in comparison
with that of former years, will not be found to be a very
large per centage in a population, estimated as being
now considerably over 20,000.
By what is called the natural increase, as shown by
the excess of births over deaths, the population of Battersea
would amount to 20,146. What the increase by
immigration may have been during the year it would be
difficult to determine with accuracy; but assuming it to
have been one-half less than the natural increase, it
would, when also added to the population of the census
of 1861, bring the number of inhabitants up to 20,292,