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BATTERSEA.
The general mortality of this sub-district was higher than
that of 1862, but the deaths arising from zymotic, or preventible
disease, I am happy to say, have much decreased,
which I hope may be attributed to the improved sanitation.
The total number of deaths from diseases and other
causes registered during the year 1863 numbered 522:
269 males and 253 females, being 31 in excess of the
previous year.
Of the 522 deaths enumerated in the appended Table,
98 occurred in the Workhouse situate in this sub-district,
the infirmary of which continues to be the recipient of a
large number of both 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 98 deaths registered as having taken place in the
Workhouse, 77 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 445.
By what is called the natural increase, as shown by the
excess of births over deaths, the population of Battersea
would amount to 20,641. What the increase by immigration
may have been during the year, I cannot say; but
assuming it to have been one half less than the natural
increase, it would, when added to the supposed population
of last year, bring the number of inhabitants up to 21,230.