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Camden 1965

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camden]

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SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES
Camden covers an area of 5,364 acres, with a rateable value at 1 April 1965 of £33,155,140:
the estimated net product of a penny rate for 1965/156 was £129,600.
Table 1 summarises the population, housing and social characteristics of the area of
the three former Metropolitan Boroughs which now form the Borough of Camden, and provide
comparative data for Inner London and Greater London, from information recorded at the 1961 Census.
It is likely that the broad pattern has remained substantially unchanged in the past five
years:-
1. a highly mobile population - 16 per cent, in Camden had moved into their
homes within the year preceding enumeration compared with the country average
of 13 per cent. Moreover in Camden one in four of its population was born
outside Great Britain whilst in the whole of Inner London the ratio was about
one in seven.
2. a fairly high ratio of earners to dependents and a greater than average ratio
of women who were going out to work.
3. all three parts of the Borough had very high proportions of unmarried persons
and of small households with one or two persons; and exceptionally low proportions
of large households of five or more persons.
4- a relative over-representation of professional and managerial occupations.
5. a well-educated population - about 37 per cent, continued their education
beyond the age of 16 years, compared with 22 per cent, in Inner London.
6. a disproportionate ratio of households renting furnished accommodation and
of households lacking or sharing essential domestic facilities.
VITAL STATISTICS
At mid-1965 the population was estimated to be 240,970 including 3,950 under one year of
age, 12,150 between one and five years old and 22,500 between the ages of 5 and 15 years.
There were 4,029 births to Camden residents, including those confined outside the
Borough, of which 3,562 (88.4 per cent.) took place in hospital.

Births

LiveMaleFemaleTotal
Legitimate1,7171,6283,345
Illegitimate312306618
2,0291,9343,963
Stillborn
Legitimate212849
Illegitimate10717
313566