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Wandsworth 1935
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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Report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1935.
TABLE iii.
| Sub-District. | Births registered in the Borough. | Total live births notified. | Notified by: | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medical Attendant. | Parent | Midwife. | Other person. | No. born dead | |||
| Clapham | 463 | 374 | 85 | 34 | 249 | 6 | 8 |
| Putney | 220 | 193 | 66 | 6 | 117 | 4 | 4 |
| Balham | 375 | 684 | 92 | 20 | 543 | 29 | 12 |
| Streatham | 493 | 349 | 79 | 18 | 182 | 70 | 7 |
| Tooting | 270 | 211 | 12 | 14 | 180 | 5 | 5 |
| Wandsworth .. | 620 | 543 | 103 | 46 | 383 | 8 | 12 |
| Whole Borough | 2,441 | 2,354 | 440 | 138 | 1,654 | 122 | 48 |
Deaths.
The number of deaths which took place in the Borough
during the year was 2,961, but 1,052 of these did not belong to
the Borough, while 1,868 Borough residents died outside the
Borough.
The corrected number of deaths for the Borough, after
allowing for these factors, was 3,777 of whom 1,799 were males
and 1,978 females.
The crude death-rate for the year was 11.00 compared with
11.18 in 1934, but after correction has been made by means of a
comparability factor devised by the Registrar-General, the
corrected death-rate was 10.23.
The death-rate for the whole of London for 1935 was 11.4,
for England and Wales 11.7, in the 121 County Boroughs and
great Towns 11.8 and in the 140 smaller Towns 11.2.
Table IV. shows the total number of corrected deaths and
the death-rates for each sub-district and for the whole
Borough.