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REPORT
of the Medical Officer of Health
for the year 1964.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
This Report is presented in the traditional fashion although the
Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth has, at the time of writing,
ceased to exist following on the re-organisation of London Local
Government. The Council of the London Borough of Wandsworth
as the new Authority which has inherited the residual liabilities
of the old Authorities under Article 15 of the London Authorities
Properties, etc., Order, will be responsible for meeting the cost of
printing this Report. By Article 8 of the London Authorities
(Health and Welfare Services) Order, 1964, the London Borough of
Wandsworth must send copies of this Report to the Minister of
Health, to any local health authorities containing any part of the
area of the abolished Authority (London Borough of Lambeth)
and to the Greater London Council and, no doubt, the London
Borough of Wandsworth will desire that this be done.
The Registrar General's estimate of the mid-year population
for 1964 was 348,450, exactly the same as that estimated for the
previous year, 1963.
The crude birth rate was 19.16 per thousand persons living, an
increase over the previous year; after taking account of the area
comparability factor, the adjusted rate works out at 18.39 against
17.5 in the previous year, which is quite an appreciable change.
The rate for England and Wales as a whole was 18.4 and for
London 17.2.
The crude death rate for the year was 12.98 per thousand and
the adjusted rate 10.25 as against 11.08 in 1963. The corresponding
figures for England and Wales and London were 11.3 and 11.7
respectively.
The number of deaths of children under one year of age was 151
and this gives an infant mortality rate of 22.6 which is higher than
the figure of 19.6 for the previous year. There were two deaths