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Wandsworth 1883
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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BATTERSEA.
During the year 1883, the revised census returns for 1881
were issued from the office of the Registrar-General and
showed that by a clerical error the population of Eastern
Battersea had been over stated to the extent of 2,479 persons,
This number has been deducted from its enumerated population
and credited to Western Battersea, within which subdistrict
such persons resided.
The official mean population for the year 1883 of the two
sub-districts of the parish according to such revision of the
census are as follows:—
Eastern Battersea 60,758
Western „ 58,439
Total for whole parish ,, 119,197
The total number of births in the whole parish during the
year were 4,711, and the birth-rate 39'52 per thousand per
annum.
The deaths numbered 2,344 which with the above stated
population shews a death-rate for the year of 19-66 including
deaths in the workhouse of persons belonging to other
parishes.