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STATISTICAL APPENDIX
Summary of Statistics for the year 1964
Area of the Borough 4,480 acre,
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/1964) 175,740
Number of inhabitated houses (April 1964) 46,112
Rateable value (April 1964) £7,409.806
Sum represented by a penny rate (Estimated) £29,500
Number of live births 3,669
Birth rate 20.9
Number of deaths 1,818
Death rate 10.3
Infantile Mortality
Deaths under 1 year 73
Infant deaths per 1,000 live births 19.9
Maternal Mortality
Deaths of women from diseases or
accidents associated with childbirth 1
Maternal death rate per 1,000
total births 0.3
Deaths from Pulmonary Tuberculosis 19
Death rate 0.1
Deaths from cancer of lung and bronchus 112
Death rate 0.6
Deaths from all forms of cancer 390
Death rate 2.2