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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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| Live Births | 14.13 | 16.5 | |
| Still Births | 0.26 | 0.30 | |
| 17.42* | 21.0 * | ||
| All Causes | 10.99 | 11.6 | |
| Coronary and arteriosclerotic heart disease | 2.21 | 1.87 | |
| Whooping Cough | 0.00 | ||
| Diphtheria | – | – | |
| Tuberculosis . all forms | 0.10 | 0.08 | |
| Influenza | 0.22 | 0.17 | |
| Smallpox | – | — | |
| Acute Poliomyelitis (including Polioencephalitis) | – | 0.00 | |
| Pneumonia | 0.69 | 1.60 | |
| Malignant Neoplasm . Lung, Bronchus | 0.59 | 0.46 | |
| Maternal Mortality | — | 0.38* | |
| Scarlet Fever | 1.28 | 1.05 | |
| Whooping Cough | 0.08 | 0.73 | |
| Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fever | 0.03 | 0.01 | |
| Meningococcal Infection | . | 0.01 | |
| Acute Encephalitis | 0.06 | 0.00 | |
| Diphtheria | . | 0.00 | |
| Erysipelas | 0.01 | 0.07 | |
| Smallpox | . | . | |
| Measles | 10.91 | 11.83 | |
| Pneumonia | 0.31 | 0.59 | |
| Acute Poliomyelitis — | |||
| Paralytic | — | 0.01 | |
| Non.paralytic | 0.01 | 0.00 | |
| Food Poisoning | 0.13 | 0.22 | |
| Dysentery | 0.19 | 0.78 | |
| Tuberculosis— | |||
| Pulmonary | 0.45 | 0.53 | |
| Non.pulmonary | 0.08 | 0.06 | |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 12.72* | 13.19* | |
| Rates per 1,000 Live Births | |||
| Infant Deaths (all causes under 1 year) | 23.64 | 22.2 | |
| Diarrhoea and Enteritis (under 2 years) | – | 0.45 | |
* Per 1,000 total (live and still) births.
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