Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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Summary of Statistics.
The following table shows the birth-rates and death-rates for Wimbledon as compared with England and Wales since 1939.
Year | Live-Birth Rate (per thousand home population) | Still-birtli Rate (per thousand home population) | Death-Rate (per thousand home population) | Maternal Mortality Rate (per thousand total (live and still) births) | Infantile Mortality Rate (per thousand live births) | |||||
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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 |
1543 | 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 |
1952 | 11.67 | 15.3 | 0.29 | 0.35 | 10.63 | 11.3 | — | 0.72 | 13.60 | 27.6 |
1953 | 12.17 | 15.5 | 0.26 | 0.35 | 10.05 | 11.4 | 1.33 | 0.76 | 16.24 | 26.8 |
* 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.