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BATTERSEA.
The mean population of the Parish of Battersea
for the year 1882, estimated by the official method, was
113,872; determined by the birth-rate, however, it
amounted to 113,909, and the census has at every
decennial period shewn the correctness of the calculations
upon which the latter numbers have been computed.
The births registered during the year were 4,504,
and the consequent birth-rate was 39 5 per thousand
persons.
The number of persons who died in the parish
during 1882 was 2,214. Of these 259 died in various
public institutions situated within our boundaries, and
of these 115 only belonged to the parish, leaving 144
non-parishioners, most of whom died in the Workhouse
Infirmary.
Deducting such 141 non-parishioners, 2,070 deaths
remain, which would be equal to a death-rate of 18.17
per thousand per annum. If no allowance be made
for persons belonging to other parishes, the death-rate
would be increased to 19.44 per thousand.
The death-rate for London during 1882 was 21.4
per thousand persons living therein, and was, with two
exceptions, the lowest annual death-rate on record.