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If the non-parishioners who died in the Infirmary
(103) be deducted, and the estimated mean population be
employed in the calculation, a death-rate, as before stated,
of 19 per thousand per annum results, being the same as
for the year 1878, and 233 being the death-rate for the
metropolis at large during the year under report, a lower
mortality of 4 3 per thousand would appear to the credit
of the parish. There are, however, many persons admitted
into the hospitals and asylums of the metropolis from
Battersea, the mortality amongst whom there is no means
of ascertaining, and which would, without doubt, somewhat
increase our smaller apparent death-rate.
Other statistical considerations are deferred until the
next year, when the operations of the census will supply
indisputable numbers upon which to found the usual and
necessary calculations.