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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 1950
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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The following table shows the birth-rates and death-rates for Wimbledon, as compared with England and Wales since 1939.
| Year | Live-Birth Rate | Still-birth Rate | Death-Rale | Maternal Mortality Rate | Infantile Mortality Rate | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wim. | E.&W. | Wim. | E.&W. | Wim. | E.&W. | Wim. | E.&W. | Wim. | E.&W. | |
| 10.86 | 12.1 | |||||||||
| 12.20 | 2.16 | |||||||||
| 12.82 | — | |||||||||
| 11.6 | — | 2.01 | ||||||||
| 12.1 | 1.18 | |||||||||
| 11.6 | ||||||||||
| 16.1 | ||||||||||
| — | ||||||||||
| 12.0 | ||||||||||
| 10.8 | 1.02 | |||||||||
| — | ||||||||||
| 11.6 | — | |||||||||
* 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.
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