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Co the uestrg of the parish of st. mary,
Battersea.
Gentlemen,
In presenting our report for 1889, on the sanitary
condition of the parish during that year, we have to congratulate
you, as the Sanitary Authority, on the persistent improvement
in the public health, which the following statistics amply
demonstrate.
In our report for the year 1888, we gave a statement of the
ascertained mortality per thousand in the parish for several
groups of years. Thus, in the seven years inclusive from 1867
to 1873, the mortality was 22.98
From 1874 to 1880 20.32
From 1881 to 1887 18.75
During the year 1888 15.83
„ „ 1889 14.48
For the twenty-one years, 1867 to 1887 inclusive, the mean
mortality was 20.68 per thousand; that for the year 1889,
including the deaths of all non-parishioners in the Workhouse
Infirmary, and other public institutions situated within the
parish, being, as above stated, 14.48; and therefore, 6.2 per
thousand below that average; and 3.0 per thousand below the
Metropolitan mortality of 17.4, for 1889, according to the
Annual Summary of the Registrar General.
During the year 1889, there died within the parish as is
shewn in appended table of Mortality A.
In East Battersea 883
In West Battersea 1,088
In the Union Infirmary (157 non-parishioners) 263
In the Bolingbroke Pay Hospital (5 non-
parishioners) 6
Total deaths in year 2,240