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Wimbledon 1943
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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Death Rate of Infants under one year of age:-
All Infants per 1,000 live births 50.17
Legitimate Infants per 1,000 legitimate live
births 46.83
Illegitimate Infants per 1,000 illegitimate
live births 106.39
Deaths from Cancer (all ages) 113
" " Measles (all ages)
" " Whooping Cough (all ages) 2
" " Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age.) 5
Birth Rates, Civilian Death Hates, Analysis of Mortality, Maternal Death Rates, and Case Rates for certain Infectious Diseases in the Year 194b.
(Provisional figures based on weekly and quarterly returns)
| (1) | Wimbledon (2) | England & Wales (3) | 126 C.B's & Great Towns including London (4) | 148 Smaller towns (resident pop. 25,000 -50,000 at 1931 Census (5) | London Administrative County (6) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rates per 1,000 Civilian Population | |||||
| Live Births | 17.69 | 16.5 | 18.6 | 19.4 | 15.8 |
| Still Births | 0,27 | 0.51 | 0.63 | 0.61 | 0.45 |
| Deaths:- | |||||
| All Causes | 14.57 | 12.1 | 14,2 | 12.7 | 15.0 |
| Typhoid & Paratyphoid | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0,00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Small-pox | - | — | — | - | |
| Measles | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.02 |
| Scarlet Fever | 0.00 | 0,00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Whooping Cough | 0.04 | 0,03 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.03 |
| Diphtheria | 0.00 | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.02 |
| Influenza | 0.50 | 0.37 | 0.36 | 0.37 | 0.27 |
| Violence | 0.65 | ||||
| Notifications:- | |||||
| Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - |
| Scarlet Fever | 3.93 | 3.01 | 3.29 | 3.54 | 3.80 |
| Diphtheria | 0.42 | 0.88 | 1.12 | 0.77 | 0.74 |
| Typhoid Fever | - | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.01 |
| Paratyphoid Fever | - | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 |
| Cerebro-spinal Fever | 0.21 | 0,08 | 0.10 | 0.06 | 0.09 |
| Measles | 5.74 | 9.88 | 9.23 | 9.77 | 9.17 |
| Whooping Cough | 2.43 | 2.54 | 2.82 | 2.25 | 2.68 |
| Erysipelas | 0.23 | 0.31 | 0.35 | 0.27 | 0.42 |
| Pneumonia | 0.63 | 1.34 | 1.62 | 1.16 | 1.27 |
| Rates per 1,000 Live Births | |||||
| Infant Mortality:- | |||||
| Deaths under 1 yr.of age | 50 | 49 | 58 | 46 | 58 |
| Deaths from Diarrhoea & Enteritis (under 2 yrs. of age) | 5.97 | 5.3 | 7.9 | 4.4 | 10.4 |
* A dash (-) signifies that there were no deaths.
x Information not available.
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