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Nightingale Park, &c., would tend to show that our
population has grown at a greater rate than that allowed
by the Registrar-General.
Mortality.
The total number of deaths returned by
the Registrar as having taken place in this sub-district
was 1395—of which 666 were males and 729 females.
In 1884, 1319 were returned, there is therefore an
increase of 76 on that year. In addition to the above,
68 took place in public institutions outside the district
making a total of 1463 persons who died connected
with this division of the parish.
Of the 1395, 269 occurred in Public Institutions,
viz:—254 in the Infirmary and 15 in the Bolingbroke
Hospital; these are 14 below those of the previous
year, when 283 were returned.
Of the deaths which took place in the Infirmary
76 belonged to West Battersea, the remainder to other
sections of the district.
Deducting the 269 deaths in Public Institutions 1,126
will be the correct number for this out-door district.*
The number of deaths registered in each quarter
of the year was as follows :—
First Quarter. Second Quarter. Third Quarter. Fourth Quarter.
395 311 325 364
Total deaths from all causes including all deaths
in the Infirmary in the respective years were:—
1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885
856 854 820 908 1002 1010 1195 1222 1341 1319 1395
Out-door with reference to Infirmary.