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BATTERSEA EAST.
On the middle day of the year under report, 18S2,
there existed in this division of the parish a computed
population of 60,102 persons. This computation is
arrived at by adding to 57,154 the mean population for the
year 1881, one-tenth of the increase of population
during the ten years 1871-81, equal annually to 2,948.
These together constitute the above-mentioned number,
and are the basis upon which the birth and death-rates
are calculated.
Births—The births registered in the sub-district
during the year 1882 numbered 2,352, which in the
mean population of 60,102, gives a birth-rate for the
year equal to 39*13 per thousand. Of the births so
registered 1,168 were of males and 1,184 of females.
Natural increase of population.—It will be shewn
subsequently that the number of deaths recorded during
the same period was 992, so that the natural increase of
population during the year, viz., the excess of births
over deaihs, was 1,360. The annual rate of increase
averages 2,948 persons, so that this natural increase has
been supplemented by the immigration of 1,588 persons
during the year.
Mortality.—The annexed table shows the total mortality
in the sub-district during the year 1882, with the
causes of death arranged in the usual manner, and the
sex, age, and social position of the deceased.