London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 1932
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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Notification of Births Acts, 1907 and 1915.
Twelve of these notifications were in respect of stillbirths.
Of the six hundred and eighteen notifications two hundred
and twenty were received from Medical Officers of Health of
outside areas, and related to births which had occurred to
Wimbledon residents confined outside the Borough. Similarly,
seventy-four confinements occurred in Wimbledon amongst
women, whose homes were situated in other districts.
Deaths.—The total numiber of deaths registered in the
district was five hundred and six (217 males and 289 females),
equal to a death rate of 8.51 per thousand of the population
per annum.
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Taking these into consideration, the total number of
deaths properly belonging to Wimbledon is seven hundred
and thirteen, and the death rate 11.99 per thousand of the
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