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Wimbledon 1951

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]

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DEATHS.
The total number of Wimbledon residents who died during
1951 was 779, giving a death-rate of 13.33 per thousand of the population
as compared with 12.65 per thousand for 1950. The corrected
death-rate for 1951 is 10.93 per thousand as compared with a rate
of 12.5 per thousand for England and Wales.
The number of Wimbledon residents who died outside the
Borough was 311, while 276 persons not normally resident in Wimbledon
died in institutions, etc., in the Borough.

Table: The three principal causes of death were as follows:—

The three principal causes of death were as follows:—

Percentage of total deaths
Diseases of the heart and circulatory system47%
Cancer17%
Diseases of the respiratory system13%
Total77%

Table: The following is an analysis of the causes of death :—

The following is an analysis of the causes of death :—

CauseMalesFemalesTotal
1. Respiratory tuberculosis9514
2. Other tuberculosis112
3. Syphilitic disease224
4. Diphtheria———
5. Whooping cough———
6. Meningococcal infections———
7. Acute poliomyelitis—11
8. Measles1—1
9. Other infective and parasitic diseases2—2
10. Malignant neoplasm, stomach8513
11. Malignant neoplasm, lung, bronchus171027
12. Malignant neoplasm, breast—2121
13. Malignant neoplasm, uterus—55
14. Other malignant and lymphatic neoplasms352964
15. Leukaemia, aleukaemia516
16. Diabetes134
17. Vascular lesions of nervous system346397
18. Coronary disease, angina443882
19. Hypertension with heart disease121426
20. Other heart disease5177128
21. Other circulatory disease151934
22. Influenza51116