[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon] page 7

Wimbledon 1956

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]

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Birth Rates, Death Rates, Analysis of Mortality,

Maternal Mortality and Case Rates for Certain Infectious Diseases

in the Year 1956.

Provisional Figures Based on Quarterly Returns of Registrar.General.

	Wimbledon	England and Wales
	Rates per 1,000 Home Population
Births:—
Live Births	13.38	15.6
Still Birthsj	0.28	0.37
Still Birthsj	19.46*	22.9*
Deaths:—
All Causes	9.88	11.7
Coronary and arteriosclerotic heart disease	1.87	1.67
Whooping Cough	—	0.00
Diphtheria	_	0.00
Tuberculosis . all forms	0.14	0.12
Influenza	0.05	0.06
Smallpox	_	.
Acute Poliomyelitis (includingPolioencephalitis)		0.00*
Pneumonia	0.39	0.52
Malignant Neoplasm . Lung, Bronchus	0.36	0.41
Maternal Mortality		0.56*
Notifications:— (Corrected)
Scarlet Fever	1.90	0.74
Whooping Cough	1.45	2.07
Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fever		0.01
Meningococcal Infection	0.02	0.02
Acute Encephalitis	0.02	0.00
Diphtheria	.	0.00
Erysipelas	0.10	0.09
Smallpox	_	—
Measles	l.io	3.59
Pneumonia	0.59	0.57
Acute Poliomyelitis —
Paralytic	0.07	004
Non.paralytic	0.09	0.03
Food Poisoning	0.19	0.25
Dysentery	0.24	1.09
Tuberculosis —Pulmonary	0.76	0.78
Non.pulmonary	0.10	0.09
Puerperal Pyrexia	14.60*	16.33*
	Rates per 1,000 Live Births
Deaths:—
Infant Deaths (all causes under 1 year)	12.40	23.8
Diarrhoea and Enteritis (under 2 years)		0.5

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* Per 1,000 total (live and still) births.
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