Birth Rates, Death Rates, Analysis of Mortality,
Maternal Mortality and Case Rates for Certain Infectious Diseases
in the Year 1955.
Table: Provisional Figures Based on Quarterly Returns of Registrar-Genera
Provisional Figures Based on Quarterly Returns of Registrar-Genera
| Wimbledon | England and Wales |
|---|
| Rates per 1,000 . | Home Population |
|---|
| Births:— | | |
| Live Births | 12.91 | 15.00 |
| Still Births | 0.14 | 0.35 |
| 10.14* | 23.2* |
| Deaths:— | | |
| All Causes | 8.29 | 11.7 |
| Coronary Disease - Angina Pectoris | 1.72 | 1.59 |
| Whooping Cough | - | 0.00 |
| Diphtheria | - | 0.00 |
| Tuberculosis - all forms | 0.14 | 0.15 |
| Influenza | 0.03 | 0.07 |
| Smallpox | - | - |
| Acute Poliomyelitis (includingPolioencephalitis) | - | 0.01 |
| Pneumonia | 0.31 | 0.49 |
| Malignant Neoplasm - Lung, Bronchus | 0.57 | 0.39 |
| Maternal Mortality | 1.27* | 0.64* |
| Notifications:— (Corrected) | | |
| Scarlet Fever | 1.33 | 0.73 |
| Whooping Cough | 2.39 | 1.78 |
| Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fever | - | 0.02 |
| Meningococcal Infection | - | 0.03 |
| Acute Encephalitis | - | 0.00 |
| Diphtheria | - | 0.00 |
| Erysipelas | 0.03 | 0.10 |
| Smallpox | - | - |
| Measles | 14.00 | 15.61 |
| Pneumonia | 0.36 | 0.67 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis — | | |
| Paralytic | 0.10 | 0.08 |
| Non-paralytic | 0.09 | 0.06 |
| Food Poisoning | 0.03 | 0.29 |
| Dysentery | 0.03 | 0.83 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia* | 8.87 | 17.78 |
| Rates per 1,000 Live Births |
| Deaths:— | | |
| Infant Deaths (all causes under ) year) | 1408 | 24.9 |
| Diarrhoea and Enteritis (under 2 years) | - | 0.7 |
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* Per 1,000 total (live and still) births.
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