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BATTERSEA.
The total number of births in the whole parish during
1884 was 5,275, and the official mean population for
the middle clay of that year being 125,091, a birthrate
of 42 44 per thousand results. The birth-rate for
the whole Metropolis according to the Registrar General
was equal to 33.7 per thousand during the same year.
The deaths, including those of 164 non-parishioners
in the workhouse Infirmary were 2,503 in number, and
on the estimated population mentioned above gave a
death-rate of 20.1 per thousand, that for the Metropolis
being at the rate of 20.3 per thousand.
The separate reports for the East and West Divisions
of the parish which follow, will demonstrate that this
apparent mortality is in excess of that which actually
exists, there being little doubt that the rapid increase of
population, which has in the past much exceeded any
estimate of the actual number of inhabitants, still continues
in an accelerated rather than in a diminished
ratio. If the same ratio of births to population
existed in Battersea as in the rest of the Metropolis, a
resident population of 156,369 in the middle of the year
1884 would have existed, which would have the result
of reducing the death-rate for the year from 20.1 to 16
per thousand.