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Births.-The births of 1,217 males and 1,166 females have
been registered in the sub-district during the year 1883. The
total number of births was 2,383, and the birth-rate, based
upon these numbers and the official mean population of
60,758 is equal to 39.22 per thousand per annum. This varies
but very little from that of the year 1882, when the rate was
39T3 per thousand. As a fact the birth-rate in this subdistrict
has for many years been about 39 per thousand and
constitutes a reliable factor in estimating the population at
any period between the census years, and determining
thereby the mortality rates.
Mortality.—The deaths recorded during 1883 as having
occurred in Eastern Battersea as shewn in the preceding table,
comprehended those of 503 males and 500 females, the consequent
total being 1,003. These in a population of 60,758
shew a death-rate of 16-5 per thousand for the whole year.
The death-rate for the sub-district for the three preceding
years when the population could be determined by the census
with an accuracy not possible in former years was as follows:—
Death-rate
per 1,000.
1880 18.9
1881 16.8
1882 16.4
1883 16.5
This death-rate is equal to that of the most favored rural
district, but, as will be demonstrated in the next paragraph
the rate of mortality amongst all persons residing in the subdistrict,
many of whom die elsewhere, is somewhat higher.
Deaths in outlying Institutions. It has been frequently
observed, and with a great amount of truth, that while we
were able to give the death-rate of people dying within the
parish, large numbers of persons go into Hospitals and
Infirmaries who reside in this sub-district, there dying of
their respective diseases or accidents, and that such deaths
if accurately ascertained would materially increase the deathrate
and have a tendency to shew that the mortality of the
sub-district was equal to that of London generally.