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BATTERSEA.
The estimated population of the whole parish on the
middle day of the year 1886 was 136,867.
The natural increase, being the excess of births over
deaths was 2,703, and amounts to nearly one half of the
estimated increase of population, shewing that the large
and rapid addition to the number of inhabitants which
has occurred in Battersea during the last twenty years,
still continues.
The births during the year were registered as males,
2,624; females, 2,516, and the total number was 5,240,
being equal to an annual birth-rate of 38.3 per thousand,
that for London being 323 per thousand.
The deaths were—of males, 1,285; of females, 1,192,
the total being 2,477, equal to a death rate of 181 per
thousand. If 129 non-parishioners who died in the
Union Infirmary be excluded, the total deaths would be
2,348, and the death rate 17.1 per thousand. The death
rate for the Metropolis was l9.9 per thousand for the
year under consideration.