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ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
MEDICAL OFFICER
OF HEALTH
1950
Public Health Department,
Town Hall,
Wimbledon, S.W.I9.
August, 1951.
To The Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Borough of Wimbledon.
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit the Annual Report on the work of
the Public Health Department for the year 1950. This report is
compiled in accordance with the instructions contained in Circular
112/50 of the Ministry of Health.
The report is largely statistical in character. These statistics
show a number of very satisfactory features.
The corrected death rate for the Borough in 1950 was 10.37 per
thousand as compared with 11.6 for England and Wales. The
infantile mortality rate was 18.13 per thousand live births, the comparative
figure for England and Wales being 29.8. It is very
satisfactory to note that there were no maternal deaths in 1950
amongst women resident in Wimbledon.
No case of diphtheria was notified in Wimbledon in 1950. The
number of other infectious diseases notified amounted to 668,
approximately 300 fewer than in 1949. The most important notifications
were in respect of 12 cases of poliomyelitis. 9 of these 12 cases
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