London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

View report page

Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Wandsworth 1938

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]

This page requires JavaScript

Table: GENERAL STATISTICS FOR THE BOROUGH.

GENERAL STATISTICS FOR THE BOROUGH.

Area9,199 acres
Population in 1938340,100
No. of inhabited houses in 193881,906
No. of families, or separate occupiers, in 193195,383
Rateable value in 1938£3,412,175
Estimated produce of a penny rate£13,778
Extracts from Vital Statistics.
No. of Live Births MalesFemalesTotal
Legitimate 199118363827
Illegitimate 127102229
Total 211819384056
Deaths 181919833802
Birth-rate11.92
Death-rate—Crude11.17
Standardised10.38
Rate per 1,000 total (live and still) births.
No. of Stillbirths 12229.10
Deaths from puerperal sepsis 2.47
Deaths from other puerperal causes 112.63
Total 133.11
Infantile mortality per 1,000 live births:—
All infants46
Legitimate infants45
Illegitimate infants65
Deaths from Cancer (all ages)604
„ Measles (all ages)13
„ Whooping Cough (all ages)3
„ Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age)46
Deaths from Tuberculosis:—
No, 229 Rate.67