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Section 1.-STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA.
STATISTICAL SUMMARY.
General Statistics.
Area of Borough, 2,694 acres. Area of various public open spaces, 530 acres.
Playing fields (private), 7 acres. Undeveloped area, 50 acres.
Soil and Situation.—Practically the whole of the Borough is situated on London
clay. There are a few superficial deposits of gravel in the south, and lower Bagshot sands in
the extreme north.
The altitude varies from 48 feet above ordnance datum, the lowest point, which is
situated in the south of the Borough in the neighbourhood of Ampton Street, King's Cross
Road, to 427 feet above ordnance datum, the highest point, which is in Pond Square in the
extreme north of the Borough.
The Borough is about four miles long, extending from near Oxford Street in the
south to Highgate in the north, and averages about a mile in width.
Rainfall during the year recorded at Camden Square, 20.07 inches.
Population (1931 Census), 198,133.
Population (Registrar-General's mid-year estimate), 179,400.
Number of persons per acre, 66.
Number of inhabited houses at end of 1938 (according to Rate Books), 28,638.
Rateable Value, £2,279,863. Sum produced by a penny rate, about £9,100.
Number of families or separate occupiers (1931 Census), 56,929.
Number of persons per acre (Census year 1931), 74.
Live Births
Legitimate
Total.
M.
F.
2151
1083
1068
Birth rate per 1,000 of the estimated
resident population, 135.
Illegitimate
282
148
134
2433
1231
1202
Stillbirths
83
54
29
Rate per 1,000 total (live and still)
births, 32.98.
Excess of births over deaths, 370.
Deaths
2063
1106
957
Death rate per 1,000 of the estimated
resident population, 11.5.
Adjusted Death rate 11.7 per 1,000
of the estimated population (see
page 20).