[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon] page 11

Wimbledon 1951

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]

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Table: Summary of Statistics.The following table shows the birth-rates and death-rates for Wimbledon as compared with England and Wales since 1939.

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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-Rate		Maternal Mortality Rate		Infantile Mortality Rate
	Wim.	E.& W.	Wim.	E.& W.	Wim.	E.&W.	Wim.	E.&W.	Wim.	E.&W.
1939	10.86	15.0	0.37	0.59	10.53	12.1	1.57	2.82	29.41	50
1940	12.20	14.6	0.42	0.55	13.92¹	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
1950	12.46	15.8	0.24	0.37	10.37	11.6	—	0.86	18.13	29.8
1951	13.26	15.5	0.24	0.36	10.93	12.5	—	0.79	20.41	29.6

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* From 1940 to 1948 the local death-rate could not be corrected 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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Wimbledon 1951

Table: Summary of Statistics.The following table shows the birth-rates and death-rates for Wimbledon as compared with England and Wales since 1939.

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