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Camberwell 1962

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell.

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STATISTICAL APPENDIX
Summary of Statistics for the year 1962.
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 1961) 175,304
" (Estimated by Registrar-General
mid/1962) 173,720
Number of inhabitated houses (April 1962) 45,239
Rateable value (April 1962) £2,590,599
Sum represented by a penny rate
(Estimated) £10,450
Number of live births 3,504
Birth rate 20.2
Number of deaths 1,982
Death rate 11.4
Infantile Mortality:-
Deaths under 1 year 84
Infant deaths per 1,000 live births 23.9
Maternal Mortality:-
Deaths of women from diseases or
accidents associated with childbirth 2
Maternal death rate per 1,000
total births 0.5
Deaths from Pulmonary Tuberculosis 8
Death rate 0.05
Deaths from cancer of lung and bronchus 126
Death rate 0.7
Deaths from all forms of cancer 417
Death rate 2.4