Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1910.

  • Battersea (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
[1911]
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Credit: Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1910. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    5 To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea. I have the honour to submit my fifth Annual Report on the health and sanitary conditions of the Borough of Battersea. In doing so it is again my privilege to point to the satisfactory position which your Borough occupies in regard to its sickness and fatality statistics. Since the records for the year 1910 were compiled, the pre liminary report of the enumeration of the population of the United Kingdom has been issued by the Registrar-General. As had been anticipated as regards the figures for the County of London, the estimate of the Registrar-General of the population of Battersea is proved by the Census figures to be considerably in excess of the actual population. The population, instead of increasing, has slightly declined, viz., to the extent of 0.66 per cent. as compared with the 1901 Census. Notwithstanding the error in the estimated population of the Borough, I have considered it advisable to retain this figure for purposes of this Report until the complete returns of the Census are available. It will, however, be found, despite the error as shown by the Census figures, that the results of the past year establish a record in the general health statistics of the Borough. There have been fewer deaths per 1,000 of the population in Battersea than in any previous year. There has also been a marked decrease in the infectious diseases figures. Moreover, infant mortality has declined in Battersea to a remarkable extent during the past 10 years. In 1901 there were registered 821 deaths of infants belonging to Bat tersea, as compared with 434 infant deaths in 1910, a decrease of 47 per cent., although numerically the population has remained practically the same. To the Members of the Council my thanks are due for the support extended to me. To my colleagues the Chief Officers of the Council and the Public Health Staff my thanks are also due for assistance always willingly rendered. G. Quin LENNANE. Town Hall, Lavender Hill, S.E.