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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 1963

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell.

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Table: STATISTICAL APPENDIX Summary of Statistics for the year 1963.

STATISTICAL APPENDIX Summary of Statistics for the year 1963.

Area of the Borough4, 480 acres
Greatest length4¾ miles
" breadth2½ miles
" height above Ordnance Datum (Sydenham Hill)365 feet
Population (Census April 1961)175,304
" (Estimated by Registrar-General mid/1963)174, 220
Number of inhabitated houses (April 1963)45,511
Rateable value (April 1963)£7,269,737
Sum represented by a penny rate (Estimated)£28,975
Number of live births3,714
Birth rate21.3
Number of deaths2,197
Death rate12.6
Infantile Mortality:-
Deaths under 1 year75
Infant deaths per 1,000 live births20.2
Maternal Mortality:-
Deaths of women from diseases or accidents associated with childbirthNIL
Maternal death rate per 1,000 total birthsNIL
Deaths from Pulmonary Tuberculosis9
Death rate0.05
Deaths from cancer of lung and bronchus132
Death rate0.7
Deaths from all forms of cancer393
Death rate2.2