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BATTERSEA EAST.
The Eastern division of the parish of Battersea had,
by calculations based upon the method employed by the
Registrar-General, a mean population of 57,154 during
the year 1881; which is the number assumed to exist
on the middle day of the year in question, and is arrived
at by adding to the number of persons returned by the
census, 88 day's increase of population, computed by the
rate of increase during the preceding decade.
Births.— The number of males registered as having
been born in the sub-district during the year 1881, was
1,177; of females 1,172; and the total births recorded
2,319. This, in a mean population of 57,151, is equal
to a birth-rate of 41.1 per thousand persons per annum.
Natural increase of population.— During the year
1881, 2,349 persons were born in the sub-district, and
966 deaths were registered. The difference between
these numbers, 1,383, is termed the natural increase,
and forms part of the average increase of 2,948 persons
which has been found to exist during the past 10 years;
supplemented annually by 1,565 persons or thereabouts,
who have removed into the district, in other words, by
an excess of immigration over emigration to that extent.
Mortality.— Annexed will be found the usual
tabular statement of the deaths registered in the subdistrict
during 1881, arranged so as to exhibit the
several causes of death, together with the sex, age, and
social position of the deceased.