[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon] page 6

Wimbledon 1951

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]

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Birth Rates, Death Rates, Analysis of Mortality, Maternal Mortality, and Case Rates for certain Infectious Diseases in the Year 1951.

(Provisional Figures based on Quarterly Returns).

	Wimbledon	England and Wales	126 C.B's and Great Towns including London	148 Smaller towns (resident population 25,000 -50,000 at 1931 Census)	London Administrative County
	Rates per 1,000 Home Population
Births:—
Live Births	13.26	15.5	17.3	16.7	17.8
Still Births	0.24	0.36	0.45	0.38	0.37
Deaths:—
All Causes	10.93	12.5	13.4	12.5	13.1
Typhoid and Paratyphoid	—	0.00	0.00	0.00	—
Whooping Cough	—	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
Diphtheria	—	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Tuberculosis	0.27	0.31	0.37	0.31	0.38
Influenza	0.27	0.38	0.36	0.38	0.23
Smallpox	—	0.00	0.00	0.00	—
Acute Poliomyelitis (including Polioencephalitis)	0.02	0.00	0.01	0.01	0.00
Pneumonia	0.60	0.61	0.65	0.63	0.61
Notifications (corrected): —
Typhoid Fever	—	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01
Paratyphoid Fever	—	0.02	0.03	0.02	0.01
Meningococcal Infection	0.04	0.03	0.04	0.03	0.03
Scarlet Fever	2.33	1.11	1.20	1.20	1.10
Whooping Cough	2.84	3.87	3.62	4.00	3.11
Diphtheria	—	0.02	0.02	0.03	0.01
Erysipelas	0.09	0.14	0.15	0.12	0.15
Smallpox	—	0.00	0.00	0.00	—
Measles	12.97	14.07	13.93	14.82	14.64
Pneumonia	0.46	0.99	1.04	0.96	0.72
Acute Poliomyelitis (including Polioencephalitis)—
Paralytic	0.05	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.02
Non-paralytic	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.03	0.02
Food Poisoning	0.07	0.13	0.15	0.08	0.23
	Rates per 1,000 Live Births
Deaths: —
All causes under 1 year of age	20.41	29.6 §	33.9	27.6	26.4
Diarrhoea and Enteritis (under 2 years of age)	—	1.4	1.6	1.0	0.7

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