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Births.- The statistics supplied by the Registrar-General
show that during 1940 the total number of registered live births
belonging to Wimbledon amounted to six hundred and nine, (three
hundred and fifteen males and two hundred and ninety-four females).
This gives a birth rate equal to 12.20 per thousand of the population.
Twenty-four of the births were illegitimate. Of this
number fifteen were males and nine females. In addition, twentyone
stillbirths (seven males and fourteen females) were registered.
Public Health Act, 1956 - Notification of Births.

Twelve of these notifications were in respect of stillbirths.
Of the five hundred and eighty-eight notifications, two hundred
and eighty-six were received from Medical Officers of Health of
outside areas, and related to births which had occurred to
Wimbledon residents confined outside the Borough. Similarly,
forty-seven confinements occurred in Wimbledon amongst women
whose homes were situated in other districts. The net number of
notified births belonging to Wimbledon is therefore five hundred
and forty-one.
Deaths.- The total number of deaths registered in the district
was six hundred and seventy-three (three hundred and twelve males
and three hundred and sixty-one females), equal to a death rate of
13.48 per thousand of the population.
The deaths occurring outside the district, of persons belonging
to this Borough were three hundred and three.
The deaths occurring within the district, of persons not
belonging thereto were one hundred and forty-eight.
Taking these figures into consideration, the total number of
deaths properly belonging to Wimbledon is eight hundred and twentyeight
and the crude death rate 16.58 per thousand of the population.
The death rate shows an increase on the figure for the
previous year.
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