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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 1960
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell.
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STATISTICAL APPENDIX
Summary of Statistics for the year 1960.
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-1960) 175,020
Number of inhabitated houses
(April 1960) 45,239
Rateable value (April 1960) £2,563,106
Sum represented by a penny rate
(estimated) £10,200
Number of live births 3,078
Birth rate 17.6
Number of deaths 1,902
Death rate 10.8
Infantile Mortality:-
Deaths under 1 year 76
Infant deaths per 1,000
live births 24.7
Maternal Mortality:-
Deaths of women from diseases
or accidents associated with
childbirth Nil
Maternal death rate per 1,000
total births Nil
Deaths from Pulmonary Tuberculosis 15
Pulmonary Tuberculosis death rate 0.08
Deaths from all forms of
Tuberculosis 18
Tuberculosis death rate 0.10