Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1907.

  • Battersea (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
[1908]
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Credit: Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1907. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    14 Birth-rate per 1,000 Population. Year. The Borough. East Battersea. North-West Battersea. South-West Battersea. 1897 31.7 33.8 36.6 22.7 1898 30.9 33.6 35.0 21.9 1899 3°'9 33.6 36.0 21.0 1900 30.6 33.5 35.2 21.3 1901 29.7 32.6 33.3 21.3 1902 28.2 30.3 33.1 20.2 1903 28.6 31.3 34.1 19.4 1904 27.5 30.4 31.9 19.5 1905 27.3 30.5 32.7 17.7 1906 25.9 28.6 31.7 17.0 Average 1897-1906 29.1 31.8 33.9 20.3 1907 25.1 28.2 31.3 15.6 A glance at the figures in the above tables will show that the decline in the birth-rate is general, and not peculiar to any particular area of the Borough. In all three of the registration sub-districts there has been a steady and progressive decrease in natality. In South-West Battersea, where the more pros perous portion of the community resides, the decline is, perhaps, on the whole, more marked, but it is none the less evident that a similar state of affairs prevails in the other two localities, which are mainly inhabited by a working-class population.