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Wimbledon 1960

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]

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BIRTH RATES. DEATH RATES. ANALYSIS OF MORTALITY.

MATERNAL MORTALITY AND CASE RATES FOR CERTAIN INFECTIOUS DISEASES

IN THE YEAR I960

PROVISIONAL FIGURES BASED ON QUARTERLY RETURNS OF REGISTRAR-GENERAL

WimbledonEngland and Wales
Rates per 1,000 Home Population
Births
Live Births14.7917.1
Still Births0.240.34
15.57*19.8*
Deaths
All Causes9.8811.5
Coronary and arteriosclerotic heart disease2.172.01
Whooping Cough-0.00
Diphtheria-0.00
Tuberculosis - all forms0.080.07
Influenza0.030.02
Smallpox--
Acute Poliomyelitis (including Polioencephalitis)0.00
Pneumonia0.690.55
Malignant Neoplasm - Lung, Bronchus0.590.48
Maternal Mortality-0.39*
Rates per 1,000 Live Births
Deaths
Infant Deaths (all causes under 1 year)19.2021.9
Diarrhoea and Enteritis (under 2 years)-0.51

* Per 1,000 total (live and still) births.
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