Report upon the public health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Battersea...

  • Battersea (London, England). Parish. Vestry.
Date:
[1899]
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Credit: Report upon the public health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Battersea... Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    8 The deaths in London numbered 83,936, with a consequent Metropolitan death rate of 18.6 per thousand. The deaths registered in Battersea numbered 2,762, the mortality (uncorrected) being equal to 16.0 per thousand or 2.6 per thousand below that for London. It will be observed that the birth and other rates approximate very closely to those of the Metropolis at large, of which indeed Battersea is now becoming an integral part, losing much of its suburban character and acquiring that of a town district. That the death rate has not increased is evidence of care in sanitary administration which has always distinguished this parish and the tendency to equalization and constant lowering of the mortality over the whole Metropolis is probably in great part due to the fact that the methods adopted for many years past in this parish have now met with almost universal adoption over the rest of the Metropolis. The death rate for the year under report, 16.0 per thousand per annum, is, with the exception of 1888, 1889, 1894 and last year, the lowest in the past forty-three years, when these statistics commenced, as shewn in Table V. An epidemic wave of zymotic disease has been experienced in the Metropolis during the last few years, causing an increase of notifications over preceding years. The number of notifications received by me for the last six years is given below:— Year. 1898 1,975 1897 2,569 1896 1,929 1895 1,657 1894 1,845 1893 2,798 Of the 1,975 notifications received in 1898, seventy-nine were duplicates, and notifications were withdrawn in nine instances, leaving a net total of 1,887 cases of infectious disease.
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