London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Camberwell 1953
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell.
This page requires JavaScript
Summary of Statistics
for the year 1953.
Area of the Borough 4,480 acres
Greatest length 4¾ miles
„ breadth 2½ miles
„ height above Ordnance Datum (Sydenham
Hill) 365 feet
Total area of Public Parks and Open Spaces 234.64 acres
Population (Census April 1951) 179,777
„ (estimated by Registrar-General
mid-1953) 180,200
Number of inhabitated houses (end of 1953) 42,101
Rateable value (April 1953) £1,605,029
Sum represented by a penny rate (estimated) £6,625
Number of live births 2,764
Birth rate 15.3
Number of deaths 2,187
Death rate 12.1
Infantile Mortality: —
Deaths under 1 year 73
Infant deaths per 1,000 live births 26.4
Maternal Mortality:—
Deaths of women from diseases or accidents
associated with childbirth 2
Maternal death rate per 1,000 total births 0.70
Deaths from phthisis 44
Phthisis death rate 0.24
Deaths from all forms of Tuberculosis 49
Tuberculosis death rate 0.27