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Battersea 1919

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

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Summary of Vital Statistics for 1919.
Area of Borough, 2,139 9 acres (excluding water),
divided into three registration sub-districts, tvo
Parliamentary Divisions, and nine Wards.
Population—estimated 1919:—
For births 165,960
For deaths 159,316
Density 74.45
Inhabited houses 24,926
Marriages 1,677
Marriage-rate 20.2
Births 3,075
Birth-rate 18.5
Deaths 2,061
Death-rate 12.9
Infantile mortality 74.1
Death-rate from the principal
infectious diseases 0.60
CENSUS 1911.
Population 167,743
Number of inhabited houses 24,321
Average number of persons per
house 6.9