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40
WEST BATTERSEA.
The year under report contains the record of 53 weeks. It has
been a truly remarkable one from the following circumstances.
The death rate for the Metropolis is the lowest which has ever
been recorded, pointing out clearty the better conditions
under which we live. The marriage rate was the lowest on
record, and as a natural sequence so was the birth-rate, a
condition perhaps not altogether to be deplored. But the
latter does not apply to this district, for in the place of being
the lowest it is the highest it has been my lot to record, viz:—
43.3 per 1,000, being 8 per thousand more than that of the
census year when the population was accurately known, and
which tends to show that we have a much larger population
than that for which we take credit. It will also be evident
that the death-rate from the same cause will be proportionately
increased, and which instead of baing 18.6 par 1,000,
would be reduced to 14.7, if we take the birth-rate as a basis.