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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 1949
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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Summary of Statistics
The following table shows the birth-rates and death-rates for Wimbledon, as compared with England and Wales, during the last ten years.
| Year | Live-Birth Rate | Still-birth Rate | Death-Rate | Maternal Mortality Rate | Infantile Mortality Rate | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wim. | E.&W. | Wim. | E.&W. | Wim. | E.&W. | Wim. | E.&W. | Wim. | E.&W. | |
| 1940 | 12.20 | 14.6 | 0.42 | 0.55 | 13.92* | 14.3 | 1.67 | 2.16 | 43.40 | 55 |
| 1941 | 12.82 | 14.2 | 0.29 | 0.51 | 11.92* | 12.9 | – | 2.23 | 41.15 | 59 |
| 1942 | 15.46 | 15.8 | 0.47 | 0.54 | 12.44* | 11.6 | – | 2.01 | 41.95 | 49 |
| 1943 | 17.69 | 16.5 | 0.27 | 0.51 | 14.37* | 12.1 | 1.18 | 2.29 | 50.17 | 49 |
| 1944 | 15.62 | 17.6 | 0.53 | 0.50 | 13.21* | 11.6 | 2.76 | 1.93 | 37.14 | 46 |
| 1945 | 17.01 | 16.1 | 0.42 | 0.46 | 13.38* | 11.4 | 2.42 | 1.79 | 36.20 | 46 |
| 1946 | 18.90 | 19.1 | 0.64 | 0.53 | 13.51* | 11.5 | – | 1.43 | 23.14 | 43 |
| 1947 | 19.39 | 20.5 | 0.42 | 0.50 | 13.64* | 12.0 | 0.88 | 1.17 | 18.03 | 41 |
| 1948 | 16.33 | 17.9 | 0.26 | 0.42 | 11.56* | 10.8 | 1.04 | 1.02 | 19.03 | 34 |
| 1949 | 14.99 | 16.7 | 0.39 | 0.39 | 10.72 | 11.7 | – | 0.98 | 25.14 | 32 |
* From 1940 to 1948 it was not possible to correct the local death-rate as the publication of an area comparability
factor was suspended. Consequently it is not strictly possible to compare the death-rate for Wimbledon with that
for England and Wales for those years.