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ł Including Puerperal Fever.
BirthsThe statistics supplied by the Registrar-General show that
during 1943 the total number of registered live births belonging to
Wimbledon amounted to eight hundred and thirty-seven (four hundred and
thirty-five males and four hundred and two females). This gives a
birth rate equal to 17.69 per thousand of the population, compared with
15.46 per thousand for the previous year. Forty-seven of the births
were illegitimate. Of this number twenty-one were males and twenty-sir
females. In addition, thirteen still-births (five males and eight
females) were registered.
Public Health Act, 1956 - Notification of Births.,

Eleven of these notifications were in respect of stillbirths.
Of the eight hundred and twenty-one notifications, four hundred and
seventy-one 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, eighty-one confinements
occurred in Wimbledon amongst women whoso homes were situated in other
districts. The net number of notified births belonging to Wimblodon
is, therefore, seven hundred and forty.
Deaths:- The total number of deaths registered in the district was
six hundred and ten (two hundred and fifty-eight males and three hundred
and fifty-two females), equal to a death rate of 12.39 per thousand of
the population.
The deaths occurring outside the district, of persons belonging to
this Borough, were two hundred and eighty-eight.
The deaths occurring within the district, of persons not belonging
thereto, wore two hundred and eighteen.
Taking these figures into consideration, the total number of deaths
properly belonging to Wimbledon is six hundred and eighty, and the crude
death rate 14.37 per thousand of the population.
The death rate shows a slight decrease on the figure for the previous
year.
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