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34
BATTERSEA EAST.
In presenting a report upon the sanitary condition of
the Eastern division of the parish of Battersea, for the first
complete year during which it has been disassociated
from the Western half of the parish, there are unfortunately
no data by which a comparison of the public health in this
large Sub-district, with that existing in former years, can
be determined, and it will only be possible, upon the
present occasion, to give the mortality from various causes,
separating the Zymotic, Epidemic, or preventable diseases,
from those which are less within the control of sanitary
measures. It is at least extremely probable that a large
proportion of the mortality, especially in relation to
Zymotic disease, which has hitherto been credited to the
parish at large, occurred amongst the very poor operatives
and their families, who, during the last decade, have
crowded into this Sub-district.
Population.—The estimated mean population of this
division of the Sub-district for the year 1872, based upon
the census taken in April, 1871, is 29,592; a result arrived
at by adding to the census numbers such an additional
number as is proportional to the increase of population
during the preceding decade 1861—1871, calculating the
same to the middle day of the year 1872.