[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon] page 7

Wimbledon 1937

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]

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Birth Rates, Death Rates, Analysis of Mortality, Maternal Death Rates, and Case Rates for Certain Infectious Diseases in the Year 1937.

(Provisional Figures based on Weekly and Quarterly Returns).

	Wimbledon	England and Wales	125 County Boroughs and Great Towns including London	148 Smaller Towns (Resident Populations 25,000 to 50,000 at 1931 Census)	London Administrative County
	Rates per 1,000 Population
Births:
Live	10.40	14.9	14.9	15.3	13.3
Still	0.36	0.60	0.67	0.64	0.54
Deaths:
All Causes	11.61	12.4	12.5	11.9	12.3
Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fevers	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.00	0.00
Smallpox	—	—	—	—	-
Measles	0.00	0.02	0.03	0.02	0.01
Scarlet Fever	0.00	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
Whooping Cough	0.06	0.04	0.04	0.03	0.06
Diphtheria	0.05	0.07	0.08	0.05	0.05
Influenza	0.46	0.45	0.39	0.42	0.38
Violence	0.53	0.54	0.45	0.42	0.51
Notifications:
Smallpox	—	0.00	—	0.00	-
Scarlet Fever	0.94	2.33	2.56	2.42	2.09
Diphtheria	1.02	1.49	1.81	1.38	1.93
Enteric Fever	0.06	0.05	0.06	0.04	0.05
Erysipelas	0.29	0.37	0.43	0.34	0.44
Pneumonia	0.78	1.36	1.58	1.20	1.18
	Rates per 1,000 Live Births
Infant Mortality:
Deaths under 1 year of age	65	58	62	55	60
Deaths from Diarrhœa and Enteritis (under two years of age)	4.93	5.8	7.9	3.2	12.0
Maternal Mortality:
Puerperal Sepsis	0.00	0.97	*	*	*
Others	1.64	2.26
Total	1.64	3.23
	Rates per 1,000 Total Births (i.e., Live and Still)
Maternal Mortality:
Puerperal Sepsis	0.00	0.94	*	*	*
Others	1.58	2.17
Total	1.58	3.11
Notifications:
Puerperal Fever ...	3.17	13.93	17.59	11.52	4.15
Puerperal Pyrexia	7.94	13.93	17.59	11.52	14.34

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