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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 1957
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell.
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STATISTICAL APPENDIX.
Summary of Statistics.
for the year 1957.
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-
1957) 177,700
Number of inhabitated houses (April 1957) 43,298
Rateable value (April 1957) £2,318,502
Sum represented by a penny rate (estimated) £9,200
Number of live births 2,989
Birth rate 16.8
Number of deaths 1,887
Death rate 10.6
Infantile Mortality:—
Deaths under 1 year 70
Infant deaths per 1,000 live births 23.4
Maternal Mortality:—
Deaths of women from diseases or accidents
associated with childbirth 3
Maternal death rate per 1,000 total births 0.98
Deaths from Phthisis 22
Phthisis death rate 0.12
Deaths from all forms of Tuberculosis 26
Tuberculosis death rate 0.14