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Southwark 1969
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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VITAL STATISTICS, 1969
| Area of Borough (including area covered by water) | 7,115 acres | ||
| Population (Registrar General's estimate mid-1969) | 290,530 | ||
| Number of inhabited houses | 90,116 | ||
| Rateable value (April, 1969) | £19,093,746 | ||
| Sum represented by a penny rate | £73,750 | ||
| Live Births-Male | 2,230 | 1,934 | 296- |
| —Female | 2,216 | 1,922 | 294 |
| 4,446 | 3,856 | 590 | |
| Still Births—Male | 33 | 31 | 2 |
| —Female _ | 21 | 16 | 5 |
| 54 | 47' | ||
| Birth rate per 1,000 population | 15.3 | ||
| Number of deaths—all ages | 3,561 | ||
| Death rate per 1,000 population | 12.3 | ||
| Deaths under 1 year | 69 | ||
| Infant deaths per 1,000 live births | 16 | ||
| Deaths of women from diseases or accidents associated with childbirth, including abortion | 2 | ||
| Maternal death rate per 1,000 total births | 0.45 | ||
| Deaths from pulmonary tuberculosis | 13 | ||
| Death rate per 1,000 population | .04 | ||
| Deaths from cancer of lung and bronchus | 255 | ||
| Death rate per 1,000 population | 0.91 | ||
| Deaths from all forms of cancer | 782 | ||
| Death rate per 1,000 population | 2.69 | ||
VITAL STATISTICS-Greater London Area and England and Wales
| Live births per 1,000 population | 15.7 | 16.3 |
| Deaths per 1,000 population | 11.5 | 11.9 |
| Infantile mortality (deaths under 1 year) per 1,000 live births | 17. | 18 |
| Maternal mortality per 1,000 total births | 0.20 | 0.19 |
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