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Sixteen of these notifications were in respect of stillbirths.
Of the seven hundred and forty-nine notifications, three
hundred and thirty 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, eighty-eight 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 sixty-one.
Deaths.—The total number of deaths registered in the
district was four hundred and eighty-four (two hundred and
four males and two hundred and eighty females), equal to a
death rate of 8.24 per thousand of the population.
The deaths occurring outside the district, of persons
belonging to this Borough, were two hundred and ninety-six,
namely:—
Kingston and District Hospital ... 98
Nelson Hospital, Merton 28
S.C.C. Sanatorium 2
St. Thomas's Hospital 2
Richmond Institution 12
Brook wood Mental Hospital 9
Others 155
Total 296
The deaths occurring within the district, of persons not
belonging thereto were seventy-seven, namely:—
Wimbledon Hospital 33
Infectious Diseases Hospital 4
Atkinson Morley Hospital 1
Private Nursing Homes 24
Others 15
Total 77
Taking these figures into consideration, the total number
of deaths properly belonging to Wimbledon is seven hundred
and three and the crude death rate 11.98 per thousand
of the population. The rate for England and Wales for the
same period was 11.6 per thousand.
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