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Wimbledon 1944
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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| Rates per 1,000 Total Births(i.e., Live and Still). | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | ||
| (a) Notification:- | |||||||
| Puerperal Fever ) | 10.34 | 10.34 | 13.13 | 9.25 | ( 3.61 | ||
| Puerperal Pyrexia ) | (14.14 | ||||||
| No. 140 Abortion with sepsis | No.141 Abortion without sepsis | No.147 puerperal Infections | Nos,142-146 and 148-150. Other maternal causes | ||||
| (b) Maternal Mortality | |||||||
| WIMBLEDON | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.76 | 0.00 | |||
| England & Wales | 0.31 | 0.09 | 0.28 | 1.25 | |||
| Abortion:- | Mortality per million women aged 15-45 yrs. | ||||||
| No.140.With sepsis | No.141. Without sepsis | ||||||
| England & Wales | 25 | 7 | |||||
Including Puerperal Fever.
Births: - The statistics supplied by the Registrar-General show that
during 1944 the total number of registered live births belonging to
Wimbledon amounted to seven hundred (three hundred and sixty-eight males
and three hundred and thirty-two females). This gives a birth rate
equal to 15.62 per thousand of the population, compared with 17.69 per
thousand for the previous year. Forty-five of the births were illegitimate.
Of this number twenty-five were males and twenty females. In
addition, twenty-four stillbirths (eleven males and thirteen females)
were registered.
Public Health Act, 1956 - Notification of Births,
During the year seven hundred and fifty-two births were notified by
the following persons:-
Parents 1
Midwives 166
Doctors 25
Other persons 560
Total 752
Nineteen of these notifications were in respect of stillbirths.
Of the seven hundred and fifty-two notifications, three hundred and
eighty-eight 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-eight confinements
occurred in Wimbledon amongst women whose homes were situated in other
districts. The net number of notified births belonging to Wimbledon
is, therefore, six hundred and sixty-four.
Deaths:- The total number of deaths registered in the district was
six hundred and seven (two hundred and forty-three males and three hundred
and sixty-four females), equal to a death rate of 13.54 per thousand
of the population.
The deaths occurring outside the district, of persons belonging to
this Borough, were three hundred and nineteen.
The deaths occurring within the district, of persons not belonging
thereto, were two hundred and twenty-one.
Taking these figures into consideration, the total number of deaths
properly belonging to Wimbledon is seven hundred and five, and the crude
death rate 15.73 per thousand of the population.
The death rate shows a slight increase on the figure for the previous
year.
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