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Corrected Notifications for Certain Infectious Diseases 1954.
Rates per 1,000 Home Population
England
Wimbledon and Wales
Scarlet Fever 0.84 0.95
Whooping Cough 1.25 2.39
Typhoid Fever — 0.00
Paratyphoid Fever — 0.01
Meningococcal Infection 0.02 0.02
Diphtheria — 0.00
Erysipelas 0.05 0.12
Smallpox —
Measles 0.31 3.31
Pneumonia 0.31 0.60
Acute Poliomyelitis (including Polioencephalitis)
Paralytic 0.03 0.03
Non-paralytic 0.03 0.01
Food Poisoning 0.22 0.19
Dysentery 0.24 0.71
Puerperal Pyrexia* 4.99 17.74
* Per 1,000 total (live and still) births.
BIRTHS.
The statistics supplied by the Registrar-General show that during
1954 the total number of registered live births belonging to Wimbledon
was 784. In addition, 18 stillbirths were registered. This gives a birthrate
of 13.48 per thousand of the population compared with a rate of
12.68 per thousand for the previous year.
A comparability factor has been supplied by the Registrar-General
which enables the birth-rate for Wimbledon to be compared with that
for England and Wales. The corrected birth-rate for Wimbledon for
1954 is 12.94 per thousand of the population, whilst the rate for England
and Wales is 15.2.
DEATHS.
The total number of Wimbledon residents who died during 1954
was 619, giving a death-rate of 10.64 per thousand of the population as
compared with 12.56 per thousand for 1953. The corrected death-rate
for 1954 is 8.51 per thousand as compared with a rate of 11.3 per
thousand for England and Wales.
The number of Wimbledon residents who died outside the Borough
was 235, whilst 272 persons not normally resident in Wimbledon died
in institutions, etc., in the Borough.
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