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Wimbledon 1945
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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| (1) | Rates per 1,000 Total Births (i.e., Live and Still) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | ||||
| (a) Notifications:— | ||||||||
| Puerperal Fever | 9.74 | 9.93 | 12.65 | 8.81 | 3.60 | |||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 15.87 | |||||||
| (b) Maternal Mortality:— | No. 140 Abortion with sepsis | No. 141 Abortion without sepsis | No. 147 Puerperal Infections | Nos. 142-146 and 148-150. Other maternal causes | ||||
| WIMBLEDON | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.21 | 1.21 | ||||
| England and Wales | 0.25 | 0.08 | 0.24 | 1.22 | ||||
| Mortality per Million Women aged 15-45 years | ||||||||
| No. 140 with Sepsis | No. 141 without sepsis | |||||||
| England and Wales | 18 | 6 | ||||||
‡ Including Puerperal Fever.
Births.—The statistics supplied by the Registrar-General show
that during 1945 the total number of registered live births belonging
to Wimbledon amounted to eight hundred and one. (Four hundred
and thirty seven males and three hundred and sixty four females).
This gives a birth rate equal to 17.01 per thousand of the population,
compared with 15.62 per thousand for the previous year. Seventy
of the births were illegitimate. Of this number forty five were
males and twenty five females. In addition twenty still-births (ten
females and ten males, two of which were illegitimate) were registered.
Public Health Act, 1936.—Notification of Births.
During the year eight hundred and fifty six births were notified
by the following persons:—
Parents
Midwives 166
Doctors 7
Other persons 683
Total 856
Fifteen of these notifications were in respect of still-births.
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