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BATTERSEA.
In presenting this, the 14th Annual Report, on the
health and sanitary condition of this Sub-district, there
will be much less need than last year to hazard a conjecture
as to the possible increase of the population by immigration,
since in a very short period a fresh Census will be
taken, which will put the statist in possession of the most
authentic information, and furnish a sound and reliable
basis upon which to calculate the death-rate of every
district in the kingdom.
In so far, however, as the excess of births over deaths
in the past year will permit of a calculation being made
for this Sub-district in respect to what is termed the
natural increase of the population, it may be stated that
it exceeds that of 1868 by 46.
During the past year (1869), there have been withdrawn
from the population 1121 persons by death, and during
the same period, the number of the inhabitants has