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BATTERSEA EAST.
The greater the interval of time which has elapsed
between the preceding census and the year under report,
the greater becomes the difficulty of determining the real
population of this important Sub-district, which increases
in a probably accelerated ratio.
The official mean population of Eastern Battersea for
the year 1876 is 36,567, but, as has been shown in former
reports, this is undoubtedly far below the real number; the
birth-rate would be, if this estimate were accepted as
correct, 53.8 per thousand per annum, a perfectly preposterous
rate, the birth-rate for the metropolis being only 36.5
per thousand during the year.
It is therefore necessary to use an estimated mean
population, and as the birth rate in Eastern Battersea has,
with remarkable uniformity, remained at 42 per thousand,
an estimated mean population of 46,857 for the middle of
the year 1876 has been deduced from the 1968 births
registered, which is probably almost absolutely correct.
The natural increase of population, arrived at by
deducting the 893 deaths from the 1968 births registered