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Wimbledon 1952
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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SECTION A. — STATISTICS AND
SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA.
| Area (in acres—Census, 1951) | 3,212 |
| Population (Census, 1951) | 58,158 |
| Home Population (mid-1952) | 58,550 |
| Number of inhabited houses:— | |
| 1921 (Census) | 11,926 |
| 1931 (Census) | 13,325 |
| Number of families or separate occupiers:— | |
| 1921 (Census) | 13,998 |
| 1931 (Census) | 15,883 |
| Rateable Value:— £826,420. | |
| Sum represented by penny rate:—£3,371. |
Extracts from Vital Statistics of the Year 1952.
(Registrar-General's Figures.)
| Total | M. | F. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live Births | Legitimate | 703 | 363 | 340 | |
| Illegitimate | 32 | 15 | 17 | ||
| Total | 735 | 378 | 357 | ||
| Total | M. | F. | |||
| Stillbirths | Legitimate | 16 | 11 | 5 | |
| Illegitimate | 1 | – | 1 | ||
| Total | 17 | 11 | 6 | ||
| Live birth rate per 1,000 of the estimated home population | 12.55 | ||||
| Corrected live birth rate per 1,000 of the estimated home population | 11.67 | ||||
| Still-birth Rate per 1,000 total (live and still) births | 22.61 | ||||
| Total | M. | F. | |||
| Deaths | 759 | 346 | 413 | ||
| Crude Death Rate per 1,000 of the estimated home population | 12.96 | ||||
| Corrected Death Rate per 1,000 of the estimated home population | 10.63 | ||||
| Deaths from puerperal causes— | |||||
| Deaths. | Rate per 1,000 total (live and still) births. | ||||
| Puerperal and post-abortive sepsis | – | – | |||
| Other maternal causes | – | – | |||
| Total | – | – | |||
| Death Rate of infants under one year of age:— | |||||
| All infants per 1,000 live births | 13.60 | ||||
| Legitimate infants per 1,000 legitimate live births | 14.22 | ||||
| Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate live births | – | ||||
| Deaths from cancer | 127 | ||||
| diphtheria | – | ||||
| poliomyelitis | – | ||||
| „ „ measles | – | ||||
| „ whooping cough | – | ||||