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Wimbledon 1926

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]

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Isolation Hospital 1
North Wimbledon Hospital 11
Others 71
Total 83
Taking those into consideration, the total number of deaths
properly belonging to Wimbledon, is 579, and the death rate
9.9. The rate for England and Wales for the same period
was 11.6.

Table: Table showing the births, deaths, and death-rates in the Borough of Wimbledon in the last five years.

Table showing the births, deaths, and death-rates in the Borough of Wimbledon in the last five years.

192619251924192319221921
Births8077608148688681033
Deaths579638645546616634
Death-rates9.910.911.19.49.910.2

Table: Table II. gives the causes of, and ages at. deaths during 1926. Deaths due to notifiable infectious diseases are given on p. 33. The principal causes of death, a part from Zymotic deaths, are as follows:—

Table II. gives the causes of, and ages at. deaths during 1926. Deaths due to notifiable infectious diseases are given on p. 33. The principal causes of death, a part from Zymotic deaths, are as follows:—

Cancer104
Heart Disease92
Pneumonia50
Bronchitis47
Cerebral Haemorrhage31
Tuberculosis (Respiratory)30

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Infantile Mortality:—There were 27 infant deaths during
the year (including transferable deaths), giving a rate of 33
per thousand registered births, a decrease of 19 per thousand
on last year's figures, when there were 46 deaths and a rate
of 60. The infantile death-rate calculated on the RegistrarGeneral's
figures, is 33 per thousand births. The infant death
rate for illegitimate children was 26 per thousand illegitimate
births.
The following table shows the causes of death, and ages at
death, of Infants under one year:—
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