Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1905.

  • Battersea (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
[1906]
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Credit: Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1905. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: City of London, London Metropolitan Archives

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    12 The birth-rate, i.e., the number of births per 1,000 of the population at all ages, was 27.3. This is the lowest birth-rate ever recorded for Battersea, and is no less than 2.9 below the mean birth-rate for the previous ten years. The Battersea birth-rate, which during the ten years 1875-1884 was usually over 40 per 1,000, and in the year 1884 was as high as 43.4 per 1,000, has declined with remarkable rapidity in the last twenty years. The London birth-rate and the birth-rate for England and Wales have also declined considerably, but the decline has been much greater in Battersea, as is shown by the following figures:— Birth-rate per 1,000 Population. Years. England and Wales. London. Battersea. 1876-80 35.4 35.5 40.6 1881-85 33.5 34.2 40.4 1886-90 31.4 32.2 37.0 1891-95 30.5 30.8 32.8 1896-1900 29.3 29.7 31.3 1901-05 28.1 28.1 28.2 The next table shows the birth-rate in the Borough and in each of the sub-districts during the ten years 1893-1904 and in the year 1905.