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The estimated nud-1957 female population for England and Wales
age 15-44 was 9,040,000.
As stated overleaf there were no maternal deaths in Wimbledon
during 1957.
INFANTILE MORTALITY.
During 1957 there were 9 deaths among infants under one year,
compared with 10 in 1956 and an average of 14 in the last ten years.
On no occasion previously has the low figure of 9 deaths been recorded
in the Borough. One of the deaths was in respect of an illegitimate
child.
The resultant infant mortality rate for Wimbledon per thousand
live births, was the lowest on record at 11.40, the lowest rates previously
recorded being 12.40 in 1956 and 13.60 in 1952. The figure for England
and Wales, 23.1, was also the lowest on record, being 0.6 per thousand
below that for 1956, the previous lowest.
Three of the deaths were due to prematurity and three due to congenital
malformations or birth injuries. One child died from pneumonia,
one from asphyxia (unknown cause) and the remaining death was due
to bronchitis.
The number of neo-natal deaths (i.e. those occurring during the
first four weeks of life) was 8, giving a neo-natal death rate of 10.1 per
thousand live births, as compared with a rate of 16.5 for England and
Wales.
The following table shows the causes of the 9 deaths which occurred
during 1957, together with the age at death.
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