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Mortality.—The persons whose deaths were recorded by the
Registrar for East Battersea during 1884 were 606 males and
578 females. The total number was 1184. The official mean
population of 63,706 for the year would demonstrate a deathrate
based upon these figures of 18.58 per thousand, the
mortality of the Metropolis for the year 1884 being 20.3 per
thousand. It should be noted that 53 weeks' mortality is
included in the year 1884, and this circumstance, which
occurs every five years in order to take one whole week into
computation, increases the apparent mortality rather more
than 2 per cent., so that had the year only included 52 weeks
the death-rate would have been equal to 18.22 per thousand.
The importance of a more correct method of computing the
population becomes manifest when it is stated that the
estimated mean population, referred to in a preceding paragraph
as 67,205, based upon the actual number or births, would
shew that the real death-rate for the year was but 17.61 per
thousand.
Deaths in outlying Institutions.—During the year one
hundred and thirty-six residents of East Battersea died in
outlying Institutions, viz:—
In the various Metropolitan Hospitals 76
,, Wandsworth and Clapliam Union Intimiary 48
„ Metropolitan Asylum Board's Hospitals for
Small-pox and Fever 7
„ Lunatic Asylums 5
Total 136
which is equal to a death-rate of 2.13 per thousand per annum
on the official mean population. There is, per contra, no
means of ascertaining the deaths which occur in the subdistrict
among those who habitually reside in other parishes,
but who temporarily come to the Metropolis in order to attend
the various Hospitals, and dying in the sub-district, tend to
unduly exalt its apparent mortality. That these cases are
numerous is evident from the large proportion of such cases