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STATISTICAL APPENDIX.
Summary of Statistics.
for the year 1958.
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-1958)
177,300
Number of inhabitated houses (April 1958) 44,073
Rateable value (April 1958) £2,333,054
Sum represented by a penny rate (estimated) £9,280
Number of live births 3,021
Birthrate 17.0
Number of deaths 2,042
Death rate 11.5
Infantile Mortality:—
Deaths under 1 year 65
Infant deaths per 1,000 live births 21.5
Maternal Mortality:—
Deaths of women from diseases or accidents
associated with childbirth 1
Maternal death rate per 1,000 total births 0.32
Deaths from Phthisis 30
Phthisis death rate 0.17
Deaths from all forms of Tuberculosis 32
Tuberculosis death rate 0.18