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BATTERSEA.
Under the headings of East and West Battersea
respectively, will be found a resumé of the sanitation of
the year 1877; but there are many details which can only
be profitably considered with reference to their bearing
on the Parish as a whole, and we therefore beg to present
the usual summary for the entire parish.
The official mean population of the Parish of Battersea
for the middle day of the year 1877, according to
the mode of estimation used by the Registrar-General,
was 75,600. The births registered during the same year
were 3481, which would give a birth-rate of 46.0 per 1000
per annum; and the deaths recorded during the same year
were 1725 in number, which would produce a corresponding
death-rate of 22.8 per 1000 per annum. This includes
all deaths in the Infirmary and other public institutions,
and is much in excess of the real death-rate.
The estimated mean population of the parish for 1877,
based on the assumption that the birth-rate is really a
constant factor, would be 82,880. The real birth-rate
would consequently be 42.0 per 1000, that for London
at large for 1877, being 36.1; and the deaths during the
year in the whole parish, if the non-parishioners who
died in the Infirmary, 109, were deducted, as they properly
should be, would be at the rate of 19.5 per 1000 per
annum. The death-rate of London for 1877 was 21.9;
and on the above estimate the mortality of Battersea was
2.4 per 1000 below that of the Metropolis generally, an
unequivocal evidence of the general salubrity of this
extensive and populous parish, and a legitimate source of
satisfaction to the sanitary authorities responsible for the
health and physical well-being of its inhabitants.
General Sanitary Work in the Parish during 1877.
It will be observed that the sanitary officers have performed
work in excess of that of any previous year.
The large number of 3061 inspections have been