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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Camberwell 1956
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell.
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STATISTICAL APPENDIX.
Summary of Statistics.
for the year 1956.
Area of the Borough 4,480 acres
Greatest length 4¾ miles
„ breadth 2½ miles
„ height above Ordnance Datum (Sydenham
Hill) 365 feet
Population (Census April 1951) 179,777
"(estimated by Registrar-General mid-
1956) 177,800
Number of inhabitated houses (April 1956) 43,636
Rateable value (April 1956) £2,467,129
Sum represented by a penny rate (estimated) £9,710
Number of live births 2,742
Birth rate 15·4
Number of deaths 1,920
Death rate 10·8
Infantile Mortality:—
Deaths under 1 year 65
Infant deaths per 1,000 live births 23·7
Maternal Mortality:—
Deaths of women from diseases or accidents
associated with childbirth 1
Maternal death rate per 1,000 total births 0·36
Deaths from Phthisis 24
Phthisis death rate 0·13
Deaths from all forms of Tuberculosis 25
Tuberculosis death rate 0·13