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BATTERSEA WEST.
This is the first complete year that Battersea has been
divided into two districts and a Medical Officer of Health
appointed for each, for the purpose of sanitation and other
matters, consequently it will be impossible in the present
report to compare statistics and per centages in every
case with those of previous years, but as far as possible it
will be done. My colleague and myself have deemed it
advisable to compile a separate report for each division, in
which we hope to arrive at an accurate conclusion as to
the death rate and other matters of interest in connection
with each Sub-district. I must therefore refer the Board
to the conjoint report of the whole Parish for the comparison
of this year with previous ones with regard to health, &c.
Death Rate.—For the purpose of unity I have still adhered
to the method of calculation for increase of population
pursued by the Registrar General, though at the same time,
as evidenced by the increase during the past ten years,
which was 17 per cent in Battersea, his mode of
calculation has fallen very far short of giving to Battersea
its actual increase. I have every reason to believe that
the population in this district has increased during the
past year at the same ratio, but taking the increase at 10
per cent only, which probably is as near correct as