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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Battersea 1919

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea, Metropolitan Borough of]

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Table: The estimated population, based upon the Registrar-General's figures for registration sub-districts and for the nine Wards, is set out in the following table:—

The estimated population, based upon the Registrar-General's figures for registration sub-districts and for the nine Wards, is set out in the following table:—

Registration Sub-District.For the purpose of the birth-rate.For the purpose of the death-rate.
East Battersea69,01866,256
North-West Battersea48,59946,653
South-West Battersea48,34346,407
The Borough165,960159,316
Ward No.Ward.For the purpose of the birth-rate.For the purpose of the death-rate.
1Nine Elms27,08526,001
2Park17,40516,708
3Latchmere19,88019,084
4Shaftesbury15,86115,226
5Church19,17118,404
6Winstanley20,03219,230
7St. John8,1297,803
8Bolingbroke18,29817,566
9Broom wood20,09919,294

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Illegitimate Births.
Of the total births registered in the Borough as belonging
to Battersea 159 were of illegitimate children (i.e., 5.17 per
cent.).
Marriages.
The marriages registered in Battersea during 1919 number
1,677; the marriage.rate, i.e., the number of persons married
per 1,000 of the population being 20.2.
Deaths
The total number of deaths registered in Battersea during
the year 1919 was 2,409, as compared with 3,195 in 1918.
Of the total deaths registered 1,182 were males and 1,227
females, showing an excess of 45 females.
The crude registered death-rate for Battersea in
1919 is 151 per 1,000 population. This rate is, however,
uncorrected, and, on analysing the 2,409 deaths registered,
it is found that 730 represent deaths of non-residents. These