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The estimated mid-1958 female population for England and Wales
age 15-44 was 9,016,000.
INFANTILE MORTALITY.
During 1958 there were 15 deaths among infants under one year,
compared with 9 in 1957 and an average of 14 in the last ten years.
None of the deaths was in respect of an illegitimate child.
The resultant infant mortality rate for Wimbledon per thousand
live births was 18.89. The infant mortality rate for England and Wales
in 1958 was the low record of 22.6, the lowest previously recorded being
23.1 in 1957.
Six of the deaths were due to congenital defects or birth injuries
and four due to prematurity. Three children died from atelectasis (that is
failure of lungs to expand at birth) and there was one death from
pneumonia. The cause of death in the remaining case was certified as
haemolytic disease of the newborn.
The number of neo-natal deaths (i.e. those occurring during the
first four weeks of life) was 12, giving a neo-natal death rate of 15.1
per thousand live births, as compared with a rate of 16.2 for England
and Wales.
The following table shows the causes of the 15 deaths which
occurred during 1958, together with the age at death.
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