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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Wimbledon 1959
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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Summary of Statistics.
The following table shows the birth.rates and death.rates for Wimbledon as compared with England and Wales since 1940.
| Year | Live.Birth Rate (per thousand home population) | Still.birth Rate (per thousand home population) | Death.Rate (per thousand home population) | Maternal Mortality Rate (per thousand total (live and still) births) | Infantile Mortality Rate (per thousand live births) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wim. | E.&W. | Wim. | E.&W. | Wim. | E.&W. | Wim. | E.&W. | Wim. | E.&W. | |
| 1940 | 12.20 | 14.6 | 0.42 | 0.55 | 13.92* | 14.3 | 1.67 | 2.16 | 43.40 | 55 |
| 1941 | 12.82 | 14.2 | 0.29 | 0.51 | 11.92* | 12.9 | — | 2.23 | 41.15 | 59 |
| 1942 | 15.46 | 15.8 | 0.47 | 0.54 | 12.44* | 11.6 | — | 2.01 | 41.95 | 49 |
| 1943 | 17.69 | 16.5 | 0.27 | 0.51 | 14.37* | 12.1 | 1.18 | 2.29 | 50.17 | 49 |
| 1944 | 15.62 | 17.6 | 0.53 | 0.50 | 13.21* | 11.6 | 2.76 | 1.93 | 37.14 | 46 |
| 1945 | 17.01 | 16.1 | 0.42 | 0.46 | 13.38* | 11.4 | 2.42 | 1.79 | 36.20 | 46 |
| 1946 | 18.90 | 19.1 | 0.64 | 0.53 | 13.51* | 11.5 | — | 1.43 | 23.14 | 43 |
| 1947 | 19.39 | 20.5 | 0.42 | 0.50 | 13.64* | 12.0 | 0.88 | 1.17 | 18.03 | 41 |
| 1948 | 16.33 | 17.9 | 0.26 | 0.42 | 11.56* | 10.8 | 1.04 | 1.02 | 19.03 | 34 |
| 1949 | 14.99 | 16.7 | 0.39 | 0.39 | 10.72 | 11.7 | — | 0.98 | 25.14 | 32 |
| 1950 | 12.46 | 15.8 | 0.24 | 0.37 | 10.37 | 11.6 | — | 0.86 | 18.13 | 29.8 |
| 1951 | 13.26 | 15.5 | 0.24 | 0.36 | 10.93 | 12.5 | — | 0.79 | 20.41 | 29.6 |
| 1952 | 11.67 | 15.3 | 0.29 | 0.35 | 10.63 | 11.3 | — | 0.72 | 13.60 | 27.6 |
| 1953 | 12.17 | 15.5 | 0.26 | 0.35 | 10.05 | 11.4 | 1.33 | 0.76 | 16.24 | 26.8 |
| 1954 | 12.94 | 15.2 | 0.30 | 0.36 | 8.51 | 11.3 | — | 0.69 | 15.30 | 25.5 |
| 1955 | 12.91 | 15.0 | 0.14 | 0.35 | 8.29 | 11.7 | 1.27 | 0.64 | 14.08 | 24.9 |
| 1956 | 13.38 | 15.7 | 0.28 | 0.37 | 9.88 | 11.7 | — | 0.56 | 12.40 | 23.8 |
| 1957 | 13.16 | 16.1 | 0.31 | 0.37 | 9.61 | 11.5 | — | 0.47 | 11.40 | 23.1 |
| 1958 | 13.24 | 16.4 | 0.36 | 0.36 | 9.89 | 11.7 | 1.29 | 0.43 | 18.89 | 22.6 |
| 1959 | 14.13 | 16.5 | 0.26 | 0.30 | 10.99 | 11.6 | — | 0.38 | 23.64 | 22.2 |
*From 1940 to 1948 the local death-rate could not be corrected as the publication of an area comparability
factor was suspended. Consequently it is not strictly possible to compare the death-rate for Wimbledon with that
for England and Wales for those years.