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STATISTICAL APPENDIX.
Summary of Statistics,
for the year 1955.
Area of the Borough 4,480 acres
Greatest length 4¾ miles
„ breadth 2½ m il es
„ height above Ordnance Datum (Sydenham
Hill) 365 feet
Population (Census April 1951) 179,77 7
„ (estimated by Registrar-General mid-1955)
178,400
Number of inhabitated houses (April 1955) 43,036
Rateable value (April 1955) £1,643,815
Sum represented by a penny rate (estimated) £6,700
Number of live births 2 ,631
Birth rate 14.7
Number of deaths 1,878
Death rate 10.5
Infantile Mortality:—
Deaths under 1 year 56
Infant deaths per 1,000 live births 21.3
Maternal Mortality:—
Deaths of women from diseases or accidents
associated with childbirth 2
Maternal death rate per 1,000 total births 0.75
Deaths from Phthisis 28
Phthisis death rate 0.15
Deaths from all forms of Tuberculosis 30
Tuberculosis death rate 0.16