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
Wimbledon 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
This page requires JavaScript
Notification of Births Acts, 1907 and 1915.
Public Health Act, 1936.
During the year, six hundred and ninety-five births were notified by the following persons:-
| Parents | 11 |
| Midwives | 269 |
| Doctors | 57 |
| Other persons | 358 |
| Total | 695 |
Twenty of these notifications were in respect of stillbirths.
Of the six hundred and ninety-five notifications, two
hundred and eighty-seven 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, ninety confinements occurred in Wimbledon
amongst women whose homes were situated in other
districts. The net number of notified births belonging to
Wimbledon is therefore six hundred and five.
Deaths.—The total number of deaths registered in the
district was five hundred and twenty-seven (two hundred and
fourteen males and three hundred and thirteen females), equal
to a death rate of 9.01 per thousand of the population.
The deaths occurring outside the district, of persons belonging to this Borough, were three hundred, namely:—
| Kingston and District Hospital | 79 |
| Nelson Hospital, Merton | 33 |
| S.C.C. Sanatorium | 4 |
| St. Thomas's Hospital | 6 |
| Richmond Institution | 20 |
| Brookwood Mental Hospital | 8 |
| Others | 150 |
| Total | 300 |