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BATTERSEA EAST.
The population of this division of the parish is difficult
to estimate by the ordinary methods of adding a certain
number, equal to one tenth of the numerical increase in the
years 1862-71, to the census population of 1871; as the
number of additional inhabitants in the Shaftesbury Park
Estate alone exceeds the official increase of population
sanctioned by the Registrar-General.
In these circumstances it is necessary to have recourse
to other data, of which the birth-rate is the most trustworthy,
corrected by taking into consideration the natural
increase of population, i.e., the excess of births over deaths,
and the ascertained addition to the number of inhabitants
in the Shaftesbury Park Estate.
Population.—The official meanpopulation of the Eastern
division of the parish for the year 1875 is 34,826. This
is manifestly inadequate, for the reasons already stated, as
by the adoption of these numbers we should arrive at a
death-rate of 24.8 per thousand per annum, and a birth-rate
of 49 per thousand, both of which are clearly too high,
as, taking the birth-rate as a test, in the year 1875 the
birth-rate for London was 35.7 per thousand only. The