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DEATHS.
The total number of Wimbledon residents who died during
1950 was 742, giving a death-rate of 12.65 per thousand of the population
as compared with 12.92 per thousand for 1949. The corrected
death-rate for 1950 is 10.37 per thousand as compared with a rate
of 11.6 per thousand for England and Wales.
The number of Wimbledon residents who died outside the
Borough was 295, while 237 persons not normally resident in Wimbledon
died in institutions, etc., in the Borough.
The following diseases were responsible for over three-quarters
of the total deaths
Percentage
of total deaths
Diseases of the heart and circulatory system 50%
Cancer 19%
Diseases of the respiratory system 10%
Total 79%
There were two deaths from notifiable infectious diseases during
the year. One child aged eight months, and another aged four years,
died from meningococcal infections shortly after admission to hospital.
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